Results for "Memorials"
Alice Paul Memorial March
- Date: March 26, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.
Sneak Peek 11/12/2018
- Date: November 12, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: National Park Service Ranger takes a name rubbing from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, November 1991, by Richard Strauss, SIA Acc. 11-009, 91-20495.
Remembrance
- Date: November 11, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Sneak Peek 11/11/2013
- Date: November 11, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Sneak Peek 3/6/2017
- Date: March 6, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Gathering specimens at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool for the Insect Zoo at the National Museum of Natural History, 72-8300-9A.
Sneak Peek 5/9/2016
- Date: May 9, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Ceramics exhibit in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, featuring "Haviland Memorial Vases," MNH-37695.
Sneak Peek 3/5/2018
- Date: March 5, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Virginia ERA caravan at the Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, DC, August 26, 1977, by Lee Stalsworth Jr., SIA Acc. 11-009, 77-11626-09.
Sneak Peek 11/10/2014
- Date: November 10, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Attendees of "Salute II" at the Veterans Day weekend dedication of The Three Soldiers Statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the Washington, DC National Mall, Image Number: 84-18201-23A.
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What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and
- Blog Post
New Feature! Sneak Peek
- Date: May 18, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.
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October is American Archives Month: Fin.
- Date: November 4, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: November is here and the leaves seem to finally be changing, which heralds the end of October is American Archives Month. Our 31-day Blogathon was a smashing success, garnering about 10,000 visits, and even though Archives month has come to a close, we will continue to post about our profession, our stories, and our wonderfully unique treasures. [caption id="attachment_9907"
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local