Results for "International Year of Light, 2015"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-320, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Website Records, 2015
- Date: 2015
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-184, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Website Records, 2018
- Date: 2018
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River
- Date: June 18, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 2015
- Date: 2015 April 13, 2015
- Creator: Board of Regents
- Creator: Board of Regents
Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action
- Date: April 28, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes
- Date: 1879 06/20/1878
- Creator: 45th Congress, Sess. 2, 1878
- Creator: 45th Congress, Sess. 2, 1878
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-316, Anacostia Community Museum Office of the Director, Subject Files, 1978, 1986, 1990-2016
- Date: 1990 1990-2016 1978, 1986, 1990-2016
- Creator: Anacostia Community Museum. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse
- Date: June 25, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.
- SI History Bibliography
Henry, Joseph
- Date: 1972
- Creator: Reingold, Nathan 1927-
- Creator: Reingold, Nathan 1927-
Miscellaneous Adventures: Odd Job Requests
- Date: June 2, 2015
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Miscellaneous Adventures - Odd Job Requests at the Freer Gallery of Art.
Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?
- Date: November 3, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.
- Blog Post
New Image of Supernova
- Date: April 8, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="385" caption="A Young Pulsar Shows its Hand, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory"][/caption] On Friday, April 3, the Chandra X-ray Observatory released a new image (with 10 times more data) of supernova B1509 which is now available on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Chandra orbits the earth every 2.5 days capturing images