Results for "First ladies"
Top 10 Photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons
- Date: July 3, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: A profile of the top ten photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commmons—from scientists to babies sent in the mail.
Women in Humanities
- Date: March 3, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.
Link Love: 10/20/2017
- Date: October 20, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: You can help the Smithsonian produce a 9 CD Hip Hop & Rap Anthology in a newly launched Kickstarter, and if you kick in $100 or more, you'll get a digital-only track! The material in the anthology was produced with an advisory board comprised of members of the hip-hop community including artists Chuck D, MC Lyte, Questlove and 9th Wonder. [via billboard]The Smithsonian
True Colors
- Date: November 21, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Contrasting black and white with color photography by Smithsonian Institution photographers.
The Good Wife
- Date: September 28, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 9/18/2020
- Date: September 18, 2020
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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See Here: 11/10/2010
- Date: November 10, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="One of the rooms in the First Ladies Exhibit reinstalled in the West North Range of the Arts and Industries Building on May 24, 1955, in period decorated rooms, showing figures with the gowns worn by Dolley Madison, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Martha Washington, and Abigail Adams, 1955, by Unidentified photographer,
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See Here: 6/3/2011
- Date: June 3, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="338" caption="Patricia Nixon stands beside a mannequin dressed in her inauguration gown which has been placed in the exhibit of First Ladies Gowns at the National Museum of American History, c. early 1970s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285, Box 20, Folder 3, Negative
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Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.
Panda-Rama
- Date: July 11, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling arrive at the National Zoo.
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Link Love: 4/22/2011
- Date: April 22, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Belle Grove, rear, White Castle vic., Iberville Parish, Louisiana, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print."][/caption] Oooo—a pretty resource I’ve not come across before. The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture
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Happy Halloween
- Date: October 20, 2010
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: While reading through all of the great stories about archives this month, I came to the conclusion that archives serve as inspiration for a variety of things—research, papers, and yes, even Halloween costumes. Though we have been focusing many of our blog posts on archival issues for Archives Month this October, I have decided to open up the collections to help out anyone who