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: 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: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_392769,size=450,center]The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website.See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Description: [caption id="attachment_6524" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Linsey Scott, Intern, and Michael Barnes, Photographer, from the Center of Scientific Imaging and Photography stand in front of the freshly remounted world-record Black Marlin that was caught in 1953 using 130 pound test line by Alfred C. Glascock, Jr."][/caption] I had the recent opportunity to sit down
Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Three square-lipped rhinoceroses are displayed in a diorama in mammal hall of the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens come from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition of 1909-1910, post 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44A, Folder
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A group of East African buffalo, specimens from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition (1909-1910), are on display in the Mammal Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1915, by Unidentified photographer, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,