Results for "Lantern slides"
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Understanding the Magic Lantern
- Date: October 2, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Thornewood Estate in Takoma, Washington, by Asahel Curtis, August 1933, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens."][/caption] Just the other day we received a comment on one of our photos in the new Flickr Commons set of lantern slides from the Archives of American Gardens. A visitor was interested to know whether or not
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Conservation and Chrysanthemums
- Date: September 7, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Glass lantern slide of Roscrana in Glencoe, Illinois, 1930. The garden includes white tulips, blue forget-me-nots and allee of trees. Unidentified Photographer. Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution. "][/caption] In the 1960s, during the process of planning a kitchen remodel at its headquarters in New York
Link Love: 9/16/2011
- Date: September 16, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].
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New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons
- Date: August 24, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Deconstructing a Mystery: Rare photo proves to be the earliest ever taken of the Smithsonian Castle
- Date: August 10, 2015
- Description: A rare hyalotype proves to be the earliest known photo of the Smithsonian Castle, taken in 1850 when it was still under construction.
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Link Love: 5/21/2010
- Date: May 21, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
A Whale of a Tale
- Date: November 13, 2014
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.
Happy Holidays from the Archives!
- Date: December 25, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
Digitization Sneak Peek: Summer in Phoenix (Islands)
- Date: November 20, 2018
- Creator: Charles Zange
- Description: Check out a few warm weather photos from the newest digitization efforts of our Field Book Project team.
Highlight from the Photo Cold Vault: Gelatin Dry Plate Negatives
- Date: May 9, 2013
- Description: Read a brief history of the gelatin dry plate negative and learn about the work being done at the Smithsonian Institution Archives to preserve this glass plate negative photographic format.
The David Crockett Graham Field Book Collection: A Portal for Chinese Culture and Biodiversity
- Date: June 21, 2012
- Description: A closer look into the life and work of biologist, anthropologist and missionary David Crockett Graham.
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Suppose We Decide to Dispose
- Date: October 28, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Interior of Office of Printing and Photographic Service's cold storage vault, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder September 1983, Negative Number 2004-10338."][/caption] To be sure, the Smithsonian has a lot of photographs. Millions of them in hundreds of