Results for "Industry -- History"
Sneak Peek 7/23/2018
- Date: July 23, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Senior administrators stand next to their bicycles outside the Arts and Industries Building during an energy conservation campaign, 74-4912-01.
- Blog Post
Google Halts an Archiving Project
- Date: June 8, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.
Link Love: 11/14/2014
- Date: November 14, 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.
Link Love: 04/30/2021
- Date: April 30, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 4/17/2015
- Date: April 17, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Not Your Average Moving Day
- Date: April 2, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: A slideshow of objects being moved at the Smithsonian Institution.
- Blog Post
Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own
- Date: July 1, 2010
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:
Link Love: 11/25/2016
- Date: November 25, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one
Sneak Peek 8/26/19
- Date: August 26, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Removal of orchestrion from Arts and Industries Building after three years featured in the "1876: A Centennial Exhibition," April 10, 1979, by Rolfe Baggett, SIA RU000371, 79-4530-33.
A Favorite - The Smithsonian Carousel
- Date: April 11, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The Smithsonian Carousel celebrates the anniversary of its opening on April 12.
Viewing the Smithsonian in a Different Way
- Date: January 31, 2017
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: The Smithsonian Architectural History and Historic Preservation office serves as curator of the Smithsonian buildings.
Sneak Peek 1/20/2020
- Date: January 20, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.