Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A visitor to the National Portrait Gallery takes a picture of a friend next to the newly-installed, temporary portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert, by Andrew Deci, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] To judge from a walk I just took across the Smithsonian Mall, visitors to our Nation’s capitol are doing nothing
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,
Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Portrait of a City Marshal by Barr & Wright, 1870-1880, National Museum of American History, Catalog number 77.43.1678."][/caption] Help the Smithsonian ID a Houston city marshal from the 1870s in the picture on the right. The extremely flammable nitrocellulose film used before 1951 led to an estimated 80 percent of silent
Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Renwick Administrator Lloyd E. Herman (1972-1986), wearing a cummerbund made of leftover drapery material from the Grand Salon, examining woodworks of craftsman Wendell Castle at the opening of the Renwick Gallery, January 27, 1972, by Unknown photographer,
Description: Celebrating our 300th Link Love since 2010!Macro x-ray fluorescence spectrometry (MA-XRF) reveals ancient manuscripts reused as bookbindings! [via The Guardian]A historic moment - refugees form their own squad for this summer's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. [via NPR]Get your color on with National Parks! [via National Park Foundation]Artist Bill Domonkos' archival remixes.[via
Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives Reference Team handles an average of around 6,000 queries per year, and if you us what people have been researching at the Archives recently, you'll get some pretty interesting responses. Although not comprehensive, here's a snapshot of the diverse range of information encompassed by the history of the world's largest museum complex!
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14492,size=500,center]Dr. Squires was a pioneer in the application of computer technology in science museums and the founding father of data processing at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He died on his 90th birthday, December 19, 2017 in Tasmania, Australia, after a short illness. Squires received an B.A. from Cornell
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="232" caption="The flag pole on the top of the Flag Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building with the American flag and the new flag of the Smithsonian Institution, 1996, by Eric Long, Color photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 97-074, Box 1, Folder, Birthday Party on the Mall Bell and Flag, Negative Number:
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.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: The seven scientists asked to testify for the defense standing in front of the Defense Mansion, 1925, by Watson Davis, Black and white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Image # SIA2008-1146"][/caption] We are nearing the 2nd anniversary of the Smithsonian launching on the
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