Results for "Home schooling"
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I Found My Dad at the Smithsonian
- Date: December 2, 2010
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-106, Eigenmann, Rosa Smith 1858-1947, Rosa Smith Eigenmann Papers, 1845, 1884-1939, 1970, 1973
- Date: 1845 1845-1973 1845, 1884-1939, 1970, 1973
- Creator: Eigenmann, Rosa Smith, 1858-1947
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Falling for Field Books
- Date: February 13, 2014
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: James Eike and his field books reveal not only his love of birds, but also his love of life and his family.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-294, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Education and Outreach, Program Files, 1998-2011
- Date: 1998 1998-2011
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of Education and Outreach
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
The Dino Detours of Uncle Beazley
- Date: June 8, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Before Uncle Beazley, the popular life-size model of a triceratops, made its way to its final destination at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, he stopped at a couple other destinations around the Institution.
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Flickr Visitor Profile: Penny Richards
- Date: May 29, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignleft" width="159" caption="Flickr member, Penny L. Richards"][/caption] I work with people across the Smithsonian to add photos to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Occasionally, something stands out in the daily summary of comments and tags I receive. Sometimes, it’s an exchange between Flickr members sparked by a single
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Mary Agnes Chase
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=200,left]The foremost grass specialist of her time ended her formal education after grammar school. She began collecting and illustrating plants in her twenties, and was hired by Chicago's Field Museum in 1901 and later as a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientific illustration was a way for
Link Love: 11/17/2017
- Date: November 17, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A recently discovered carved sealstone from a 3,500 year old tomb in Southwest Greece shows that highly skilled stone carving in Greek civilization occurred much earlier than thought. [via Colossal]Speaking of warriors, how to fight file format rot from the Library of Congress. [via Scientific American]A new program from our National Museum of the American Indian seeks to
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Rosa Parks' Archive and Some Controversies Around It...
- Date: August 8, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Document
Torch 08/1968
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1968 Box 1 Folder 8
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Olga F. Linares
- Date: February 27, 2020
- Description: Olga F. Linares Smithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009624Olga Francesca Linares (1936 -2014) was an anthropologist with a thirty-five-year tenure at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Born in Panama, Linares moved to the United States to attend boarding school and then received a B.A. in anthropology from Vassar College in 1958 and a