Results for "Freer Gallery of Art Building"
Link Love: 9/30/2011
- Date: September 30, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Women Managing the Smithsonian
- Date: March 17, 2020
- Description: Meet some of the women who have managed aspects of the Smithsonian since the 1850s.
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See Here: 3/1/2010
- Date: March 1, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Opening of the New National Air and Space Museum. President Gerald Ford, Michael Collins, Director of the National Air and Space Museum and former astronaut, with Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, touring the "Apollo to the Moon Gallery" on opening day of the new building, July 1, 1976, by
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See Here: 11/12/2010
- Date: November 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="A painting from the exhibition "Centennial Exhibition of Painting by Edmund C. Tarbell" hangs in the Foyer Gallery of the Natural History Building, 1962, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives,Negative Number: MNH-920-A. Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 19, "][/caption]
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See Here: 12/31/2009
- Date: December 31, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
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Labor of Love: Art in Hard Times
- Date: September 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2167" align="aligncenter" width="185" caption="Biddle at work on Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C. Photographer unknown. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942. Archives of American Art."][/caption] This Monday, as we observe Labor Day in the midst of a serious economic
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See Here: 8/13/2012
- Date: August 13, 2012
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 12/6/2013
- Date: December 6, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
New History App: "Castle of Curiosities"
- Date: January 7, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: We are pleased to announce a new mobile experience produced by the Archives, Castle of Curiosities. The Smithsonian's first building, the Castle, opened its doors in 1855. While the Norman architectural style evoked "learned university," it was bordered by fetid canals and rather isolated from the rest of Washington D.C. Check out an app about iconic stories in the history of
Missed Connections
- Date: February 3, 2022
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: For Valentine’s Day, we’re digging into some local love stories that started at the Smithsonian.
Link Love: 06/25/2021
- Date: June 25, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 3/18/2016
- Date: March 18, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Spring edition! British Library is digitizing the last surviving play script by William Shakespeare pleading for the humane treatment of refugees. [via The Guardian]Why Ben Franklin would hang out at libraries today. [via the Atlantic]Wall of Birds, a new interactive from artist Jane Kim and Cornell Lab ornithologists. A local wins the National Portrait Gallery's 2016 Outwin