Results for "More Than 'Whistler's Mother' (Television program)"
Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter
- Date: March 5, 2020
- Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was
- Blog Post
Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success
- Date: December 18, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.
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The Smithsonian in Television
- Date: July 10, 2013
- Description: A list of television shows where the Smithsonian is referenced.
Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects
- Date: October 15, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.
- Blog Post
Is Mother Nature in Tears?
- Date: November 25, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3266" align="aligncenter" width="200" caption="Mother Nature in Tears, Austfonna Ice Cap in Svalbard, Norway, 2009, by Michael S. Nolan, Digital photograph, Michael S. Nolan/www.wildlifeimages.net Image exclusively represented by: www.splashdowndirect.com."][/caption] In a world where we’re constantly inundated by disturbing imagery of environmental
A Terrible Mother’s Day
- Date: May 16, 2017
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: A cautionary tale from RU 7055, the Vail Telegraph Collection, on how NOT to celebrate Mother’s Day.
The Substitute Mother
- Date: January 20, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
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Less is More With Compressed Scanning
- Date: March 3, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.
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Electronic Records Program History
- Date: April 26, 2017
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives' multi-pronged preservation strategy that establishes a foundation of bit-level preservation for its digital collections.
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Program and Exhibition Records, 1970-1993
- Date: 1970 1970-1993
- Creator: National Museum of American History (U.S.) Office of Public Affairs
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!
- Date: June 1, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.
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SIA Acc. 08-084, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, 1981-1991, 1996, 1999
- Date: 1981 1981-1991 1981-1991, 1996, 1999
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives