Results for "Keeping Perfect Time (Television program)"
- Blog Post
Made You Look!!!
- Date: July 8, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative
Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack
- Date: July 26, 2016
- Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.
- Blog Post
Coping With Stuff, Down Here and Up There
- Date: September 16, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: We’ve all got storage issues to confront. And when we do, some people take great pleasure in getting things organized and others get headaches. A small percentage descend into madness, while an equally small group see and then seize the business opportunities that are generated by the need to keep life, things, and information under control. Over the past few weeks, the
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-197, Smithsonian Channel, Productions, 2015, 2017-2018
- Date: 2015 2015-2018 2015, 2017-2018
- Creator: Smithsonian Channel
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
A Recipe from the Archives: Gourmet Golden Squash
- Date: November 25, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A 30 year old Hubbard squash recipe found in the Archives.
Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying
- Date: August 2, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.
Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.
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Great Durnford Manor
- Date: August 6, 2021
- Description: Great Durnford Manor is one of the largest and most sought-after properties described in the Hungerford Deed. In the division of lands, it was awarded to Elizabeth Macie, James Smithson’s mother. Despite battling for years to obtain the manor, Macie sold it to an acquaintance within four years instead of keeping it in the family to pass on to her sons.1 The parish of Durnford
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 00-114, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Production Records, 1981-1989
- Date: 1981 1981-1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”
- Date: September 1, 2020
- Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.
- Blog Post
A Peek into an Electronic Records Archivist’s Toolbox
- Date: November 29, 2011
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Open source tools, CERP, JHOVE, DROID, Heritrix, for electronic records archivists to use in preserving digital files like WAV, PST, websites, and email.
Archiving Born-Digital Media from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
- Date: October 27, 2020
- Description: We’ve been processing audiovisual media collections from the Science Media Group division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.