Results for "More Perfect Union (Television production)"
Toasting to the Museum that Never Was
- Date: January 14, 2021
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: A brief look at the Smithsonian’s almost acquisition of Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: February 11, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers
- Date: April 25, 2019
- Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.
- Blog Post
William Stimpson and the Smithsonian’s First Aquarium
- Date: July 14, 2015
- Description: William Stimpson and the first aquarium at the Smithsonian Institution.
The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman
- Date: May 25, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927
- Date: February 2, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.
Take This Job & Shoot It!
- Date: September 10, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian: Recycling Since 1862
- Date: April 22, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Five Tips for Designing Preservable Websites
- Date: August 2, 2011
- Description: Here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we take pride in preserving the Institution’s history, including its sizable web presence. While various offices at the Smithsonian create and back up the contents of their websites, the Archives also crawls each website using Heritrix, an open-source tool created by the Internet Archive, to capture content in an archival format.
- Blog Post
Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian
- Date: April 28, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals
What Our Experts Want You to Know About Preservation
- Date: April 29, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: For Preservation Week, our team answered our burning, often ignorant questions about their biggest challenges, what they consider when treating objects, and beyond.
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science