Results for "First American Art (Online exhibition)"
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/30/2010
- Date: September 30, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="291" caption="Men working in the Taxidermy Shop in the South Shed, One man is working on a skeleton which is on the table in front of him, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 28 Folder 31-A, Negative Number: 6068."][/caption]
Open Access: Put a Bird On It
- Date: February 24, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!
Draft of a Letter from the Columbian Institute to Congress, February 6, 1822
- Date: 1822 February 6, 1822
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 90-068, Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s
- Date: 1920 1920-1970 1920s-1970s
- Creator: Science Service
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Glossary
- Date: August 6, 2021
- Description: Alien: to transfer property title or ownership; this is a specific use of a word that at the time could mean “to separate,” which is how our modern words alien meaning “extraterrestrial” and alienate are all etymologically related to this older word. Annuity: an annual payment or allowance. Henrietta Maria Walker received an annuity from her brother, Lumley Hungerford Keate,
- Blog Post
What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and
- Webpage
Records of the Assistant Secretary
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=230,right]These records are amongst the most frequently used collections, and the most historically important records, in the Archives. US National Museum (USNM) incumbents included: Spencer F. Baird, 1850–1881G. Brown Goode, 1881–1896, including the years 1881–1887 when he served as Assistant Director of the Museum without the title of
Smithsonian Institution Staff Meeting
- Date: 1939
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Smithsonian Institution Staff Meeting
- Date: 1939
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Blog Post
What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?
- Date: August 10, 2010
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1850
- Date: 1879 January 26, 1850
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Creator: Board of Regents
National Air and Space Frisbee Festival
- Date: June 12, 2014
- Description: A brief look into the 1977, 1978 and 1979 National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Festival held on the National Mall.
