Results for "From Smithson to Smithsonian (Online exhibition)"
Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian
- Date: August 10, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.
Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online
- Date: September 8, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.
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Credits
- Date: February 21, 2017
- Description: AcknowledgementsThe web version of From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution was adapted from an exhibition that appeared from July 1996 to January 1997 in the Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition Gallery in the National Museum of American History. It was one of the official projects that celebrated the 150th anniversary of the 1846 founding of the Smithsonian
- Electronic Resource
From Smithson to Smithsonian: The Birth of an Institution
- Date: 2000-03-04 00:00:00
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-080, Smithsonian Institution Office of Exhibits Central, Exhibition Records, 1970-2006
- Date: 1970 1970-2006
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 01-200, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Exhibition Records, 1990-1998
- Date: 1990 1990-1998
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Archives
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 08-051, Smithsonian Institution Office of Exhibits Central, Exhibition Records, 1971-2002
- Date: 1971 1971-2002
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Bibliography
The Exhibits of Science and Technology at the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1995
- Creator: Matsumoto, Eiju 1935-
- Creator: Matsumoto, Eiju 1935-
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SIA Acc. 01-097, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of Exhibits, Exhibition Records, 1970-1995
- Date: 1970 1970-1995
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of Exhibits
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson
- Date: December 4, 2012
- Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.
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Lesson Plans
- Date: February 21, 2017
- Description: For secondary school teachers, the Smithsonian Office of Education has prepared three integrated classroom activities for grades 9 through 12 based on this exhibition.The curriculum materials offered here are based on selected themes of the exhibition From Smithson to Smithsonian. Lessons are designed for upper division students in grades 9 through 12 and emphasize linking the
Walking in the Footsteps of Hungerfords
- Date: September 15, 2022
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract dividing a lucrative land inheritance between the mother and aunt of the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson. Over the last three years I have been able to take a deep dive into the content of the Deed and strengthen our understanding of Smithson’s choice to leave his