Results for "How Things Fly (Exhibition) (1996: Washington, D.C.)"
Preservation of Executable Files
- Date: July 24, 2012
- Description: As archives begin to receive executable files, archives must think about if and how to preserve them so their content lasts.
- Blog Post
Walking on Broken Glass
- Date: July 22, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7450" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="A broken glass plate negative, Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] We are in the throes of summer here in Washington DC, and that means three things: heat, more heat, and interns. Interns not only allow us to share expertise and experience with newcomers to the field, but also allow
Facing Adverse Conditions While Collecting in the Field
- Date: July 31, 2012
- Description: David Crockett Graham's field books depict how he faced many adverse conditions while collecting specimens in China.
- Blog Post
Happy Halloween
- Date: October 20, 2010
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: While reading through all of the great stories about archives this month, I came to the conclusion that archives serve as inspiration for a variety of things—research, papers, and yes, even Halloween costumes. Though we have been focusing many of our blog posts on archival issues for Archives Month this October, I have decided to open up the collections to help out anyone who
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 01-118, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Administrative Office, Central Administrative Records, 1972, 1984-1999
- Date: 1984 1984-1999 1972, 1984-1999
- Creator: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Administrative Office
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-009, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.), Publications, circa 1973-2016
- Date: 1973 1973-2016 circa 1973-2016
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Link Love: 9/13/2019
- Date: September 13, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- 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.
She Blinded Me With . . . Software?
- Date: March 7, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: In this interview, Roberta Williams describes how she creates the story and graphics for a computer game, King's Quest.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-065, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Office of Community Services, Exhibition Records, 1999-2004
- Date: 1999 1999-2004
- Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. Office of Community Services
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009545, Black Aviators Videohistory Collection, 1989-1990
- Date: 1989 1989-1990
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Link Love: 3/13/2020
- Date: March 13, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- 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.
- Blog Post
Ditched Once, Loved Still
- Date: January 5, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.