Results for "Indian American Story: Blog for the Smithsonian Indian American Heritage Project (Blog)"
Link Love: 4/6/2012
- Date: April 6, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses
- Date: August 22, 2017
- Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.
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Link Love: 1/24/2014
- Date: January 24, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist
- Date: November 10, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting
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Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response
- Date: March 16, 2021
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Robert H. Goddard: American Rocket Pioneer
- Date: September 14, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 12/9/2016
- Date: December 9, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"
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The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings
- Date: July 27, 2010
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
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Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks
- Date: April 27, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.
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Volunteer Appreciation: Peter Finkel
- Date: January 17, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_10960" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Peter Finkel, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. "][/caption] Here at the Archives, we have 25 fulltime staff members, and half as many volunteers and interns at any given moment.
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SIA Acc. 16-370, National Postal Museum (U.S.), Website Records, 2009-2016
- Date: 2009 2009-2016
- Creator: National Postal Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives