Results for "How Things Fly (Exhibition) (1996- : Washington, D.C.)"
- Blog Post
Photo Sleuth: When the Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
- Date: May 14, 2013
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: What happens when you have information about a historic photograph that is contradictory? How do you decide what information is correct? Check out how one historian grapples with these mysteries.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 16-092, Lemelson Center, Audiovisual Records, 1995-2015
- Date: 1995 1995-2015
- Creator: Lemelson Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Date: November 28, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the
Dynamics of Evolution exhibit at NMNH, 1979
- Date: May 1979
Some Web Developer Career Advice
- Date: June 7, 2018
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and be sure to let us know who you would like to hear from next!
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 07-174, National Museum of African Art (U.S.) Office of Education and Public Programs, Program Files, 1978-2005
- Date: 1978 1978-2005
- Creator: National Museum of African Art. Office of Education and Public Programs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: February 11, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-062, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Education and Public Programs, Program Records, 1988-2009
- Date: 1988 1988-2009
- Creator: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Education and Public Programs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 13-024, Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, Program Records, 1988-2009
- Date: 1988 1988-2009
- Creator: Smithsonian Forum on Material Culture
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Celebrating National Radio Day
- Date: August 18, 2022
- Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.
Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg
- Date: November 24, 2020
- Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009592, Paul Edward Garber Oral History Interviews, 1974
- Date: 1974
- Creator: Garber, Paul Edward, 1899-1992, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
