Results for "Museum archives"
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Link Love: 4/15/2011
- Date: April 15, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Congratulations to the main Smithsonian website, which has been nominated for a Webby Award in the category of Best Cultural Institution website! (Please go and vote.) Mark your calendars! The Library of Congress will be hosting the free public event, Pass it On: Personal Archiving Day, on Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m to provide the public with information about
Zoe Martindale, Archives Volunteer Extraordinaire Retires
- Date: April 5, 2018
- Creator: Matt Peterson
- Description: If the Smithsonian Institution had a hall of fame for Volunteers, then Zoe Martindale would certainly be in line for induction. Martindale started volunteering at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in 1997 immediately after she retired. This past February, Martindale retired again, this time from her volunteer position at the Archvies after over twenty years of service.
Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action
- Date: April 28, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.
Design + Archives = Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date: August 5, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look back at the history of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.
- Date: February 16, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. When I interviewed Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project click! photography changes
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How to Search the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Collections Online
- Date: March 7, 2011
- Description: Find out tips on locating the collections you need.
Hall of Photography
- Date: February 16, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Neil Allen worked on audiovisual elements in the Hall of Photography which opened at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1973.
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Records of the Assistant Secretary
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=230,right]These records are amongst the most frequently used collections, and the most historically important records, in the Archives. US National Museum (USNM) incumbents included: Spencer F. Baird, 1850–1881G. Brown Goode, 1881–1896, including the years 1881–1887 when he served as Assistant Director of the Museum without the title of
Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Date: July 2, 2019
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.
Finding the Digital Treasures
- Date: November 1, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Highlighting some of the Archives favorite digital objects in its collections.
Celebrate 2014 Archives Month!
- Date: October 2, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It's time again to celebrate all the wonderful things archives have and do! The Society of American Archivists declares each October American Archives Month and the Smithsonian theme for this year is "Discover and Connect." At the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we handle over 6000 reference requests per year and have an ambitious digitization plan to serve people worldwide
Link Love: 10/28/2016
- Date: October 28, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You