Results for "Museum Work"
U.S. National Museum Decorated for Garfield Inaugural Ball
- Date: 1881
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Accession Records: Not Just Interdepartmental Paper Piles
- Date: August 11, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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.
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/5/2011
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum (now the Arts and Industries Building) work and storage area with the Zuni, New Mexico,pueblo model under construction, 1880s, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 43 Folder 39, Negative Number:
- Blog Post
You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?
- Date: May 9, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some
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.
- Webpage
Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
- Document
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- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to authorize the Secretary of War to proceed with the construction of certain public works in connection with the War Department in the District of Columbia," approved June 15, 1938
- Date: 1942 09/24/1941
- Creator: 77th Congress, Sess. 1, 1941
- Creator: 77th Congress, Sess. 1, 1941
- SI History Chronology
Natural History Museum Closed
- Date: August 14, 2014
- Blog Post
Link Love: 12/5/2014
- Date: December 5, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Introducing the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ New Flickr Photostream
- Date: May 2, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives is now using Flickr hightlight behind-the-scenes projects, workshops, and staff at work.
