Results for "International cooperation"
- Gallery
Expositions
- Date: September 16, 2013
- Description: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Smithsonian participated in numerous international world’s fairs and expositions. The Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 held in San Francisco, California, was intended celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as to illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government of the United States, and to
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. T90006, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Department of History of Technology, Correspondence and Memoranda, 1932-1980
- Date: 1932 1932-1980
- Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Department of History of Technology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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José Castulo Zeledón
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born in Las Anonas, near San José, Costa Rica, Zeledón was the scion of a distinguished family whose intellectual gifts and love of learning were common traits. His father, don Manuel Zeledón, was governor of the district of San José for thirty years, and a man of great integrity. From earliest childhood José was interested in birds, and began serious study as
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Alexander Wetmore
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore was the sixth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He developed an early interest in natural history and published his first paper on birds at the age of thirteen. He received a B.S. from the University of Kansas (1912) and and M.S. and Ph. D. from George Washington University (1916 &
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SIA Acc. 08-097, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Center for Tropical Forest Science, Program Records, 1980-2005
- Date: 1980 1980-2005
- Creator: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Center for Tropical Forest Science
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Credits
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]The exhibition from which this website is derived was exhibited at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Gallery in 1996 to commemorate the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary.This online exhibition was developed and written by a working group consisting of Dr. Jane MacLaren Walsh, Dr. Pamela M. Henson, and Dr. Margaret R. Dittemore and
The Smithsonian and the Civil War
- Date: April 12, 1861 Civil War, 1861-1865
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SIA Acc. 91-132, Smithsonian Resident Associate Program Office of the Director, Subject Files, 1982-1991
- Date: 1982 1982-1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Resident Associate Program. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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William Henry Holmes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born near Cadiz, Ohio, in the year the Smithsonian was founded, 1846, Holmes's life was intimately tied to the institution from the time he was twenty-five until his retirement in 1932 when he was 86.He began work as an artist drawing specimens for a number of naturalists in the employ of Spencer Fullerton Baird, then Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Ephraim George Squier
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=200,left]Ephraim George Squier was a self-educated journalist and diplomat who made substantial contributions to the archaeology and ethnology of the Americas. Born in 1821, he worked as a journalist in New York and Connecticut before moving to Ohio. There Squier developed an interest in the large earthen mounds believed to
- Document
Torch 05/1970
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1970 Box 1 Folder 5
