Results for "More than Whistler's Mother (Television production)"
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A Tale of Two Sisters
- Date: August 4, 2021
- Description: Why would an English chemist donate his fortune to the United States, a newly formed country he had never visited? We will likely never know exactly why in 1826 James Smithson chose to bequeath more than half a million dollars to create the Smithsonian Institution.
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“Love, Doris”
- Date: March 12, 2020
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: While digitizing the collection of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, I discovered a treasure trove of correspondence that sheds light about growing up as a young woman in the mid-20th century and the story of an intimate mother-daughter relationship.
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Link Love: 11/19/2010
- Date: November 19, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Ever heard of The Impossible Project? When Polaroid announced they would stop production of instant film, these folks saved the last Polaroid production plant in the Netherlands, and started to develop new instant film with a small team of former Polaroid employees. Check out some shots of Smithsonian museums taken by Aaron Dunn and created with the fruits of their labor. What
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Smokey Bear
- Date: September 5, 2019
- Description: 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of Smokey Bear, and, considering the rise in wildfires during the past decade, Smokey and his message of wildfire prevention and wildlife preservation is needed now more than ever. The U. S. Forest Service maintains a very informative website regarding Smokey’s history and a wealth of wildfire statistics may be found on the National Interagency
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SIA RU000296, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, 1969-1979
- Date: 1969 1969-1979
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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A Hungerford Property History of Women’s Rights
- Date: March 25, 2021
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: We’ve learned so much about the specific women of James Smithson’s family though the Hungerford Deed—but what can it tell us about women’s rights in the eighteenth century?
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Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: February 23, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.
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SIA Acc. 09-055, Smithsonian Productions, Productions, 1967-2000 and undated
- Date: 1967 1967-2000 1967-2000 and undated
- Creator: Smithsonian Productions
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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In Living Color
- Date: January 12, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and
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Intellectual Property Records, 1995-2002
- Date: 1995 1995-2002
- Creator: Smithsonian Productions
Here at the Smithsonian: Planes, Design, and Time
- Date: August 31, 2021
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: As Summer 2021 winds down, we'll take a look at some examples of the breadth of work and collections that are represented at the Smithsonian Institution.
Betty J. Meggers: Pioneer in Environmental Archaeology
- Date: March 7, 2017
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.