Results for "Japan"
Searching for Unicorns
- Date: July 18, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.
Crowned Heads
- Date: September 10, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Royalty visits the Smithsonian Institution
Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art
- Date: May 25, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.
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The More I See You, the More I Want You
- Date: September 25, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Spotlight: Oscar Loew, Office of the Chemist
- Date: August 26, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: a closer look at Oscar Loew, the first person to hold the Office of Smithsonian Chemist.
The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters
- Date: September 10, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.
The Electronic Smithsonian
- Date: May 7, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look back at the first Smithsonian home page, launched 20 years ago.
Tis the Season at the Smithsonian
- Date: December 20, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: How the Smithsonian celebrated the holidays in 1977, and what traditions continue today!
The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens
- Date: September 3, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.
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19th-Century Marine Life’s Role in the 21st Century
- Date: January 25, 2011
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers
- Date: February 19, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.
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What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?
- Date: August 10, 2010
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,