Results for "Museum curators"
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- SI History Bibliography
The 'Black Box Conundrum': How Has the Smithsonian Institution Collected and Curated Computer-Based Technology? A Study of Contemporary Collecting and Curatorial Expertise
- Date: 2015
- Creator: Foti, Petrina
- Creator: Foti, Petrina
Link Love: 11/8/2019
- Date: November 8, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 03/05/2021
- Date: March 5, 2021
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Care Package from Home
- Date: July 11, 2017
- Creator: Charles Zange
- Description: A look at letters from home that the Smithsonian's Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt received while traveling on expeditions in 1925.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-256, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of Public Affairs and Marketing, Curator Files, c. 1986-2002
- Date: 1986 1986-2002 c 1986-2002
- Creator: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of Public Affairs and Marketing
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Valerie Fletcher
- Date: March 11, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Dr. Valerie Fletcher joined the research staff at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1978 and was promoted to a curatorial role in 1984. Fletcher worked as an Assistant and Associate Curator, 1984–92, Curator of Sculpture, 1992–2005, and Senior Curator, 2005–16. In retirement, Fletcher continues her research at the Museum as Senior Curator Emerita. #Groundbreaker
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000519, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Costume and Furnishings, Correspondence, 1972-1974
- Date: 1972 1972-1974
- Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Costume and Furnishings
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- Date: January 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs
- Date: October 21, 2021
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.
Gender Discrimination at the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: August 6, 2019
- Description: A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.
- Blog Post
Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist
- Date: February 27, 2020
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.