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- Authority Record/EAC
Morrison, Joseph Paul Eldred
- Date: 1906 1983
- Blog Post
Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: February 23, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 99-026, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Education Department, Records, 1989-1998
- Date: 1989 1989-1998
- Creator: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Education Department
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Authority Record/EAC
Chase, Mary Agnes, 1869-1963
- Date: 1869 1963
- Webpage
Eva J. Pell
- Date: February 26, 2020
- Description: Eva J. PellSmithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009640Eva J. Pell (1948- ), Smithsonian Undersecretary for Science from 2010 to 2014, cracked a glass ceiling by becoming the highest-ranking woman to serve as a science manager at the Smithsonian. She was born in New York City to immigrant parents who, from the start, encouraged her to pursue and value
The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters
- Date: September 10, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 95-171, Smithsonian Institution Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities, Records, circa 1990-1995
- Date: 1990 1990-1995 circa 1990-1995
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning
- Date: June 20, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.
- Blog Post
“Love, Doris”
- Date: March 12, 2020
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: While digitizing the collection of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, I discovered a treasure trove of correspondence that sheds light about growing up as a young woman in the mid-20th century and the story of an intimate mother-daughter relationship.
- Webpage
Sharing Plants, Animals, and Friendships
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=110,left]Exchanging specimens is essential in botanical research: Herbaria swap their duplicates in return for specimens they lack. Such international trading is based on relations established through correspondence and research trips, relations that endure through generations of botanists. By the early twentieth century,
- Blog Post
Art On Message
- Date: February 25, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="Georgia O'Keeffe, 1920, by Alfred Stieglitz, Photographic print, Archives of American Art, Local Number: AAA 440 (fr. 508)."][/caption] I confess, way back when as a student of American Modernism, I was never much interested in Georgia O’Keeffe. I was supposed to be. She was the lone, out-there, woman painter of America;
Robert Kennicott and the Western Union Telegraph Expedition
- Date: September 21, 2017
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14715,size=250,left] By now you have probably heard of Robert Kennicott, either because of his involvement with the Megatherium Club, or because of the article and blog post on his death that was published last year. I, however, tend to associate him with the Western Union Telegraph Expedition, a collecting mission to Alaska that proved to be his last.