Results for "Museums -- Employees"
Wishing you a Trivial New Year!
- Date: January 4, 2018
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our
Smithsonian in Wartime – A New Web Exhibit!
- Date: August 9, 2016
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Announcing a new web exhibit exploring the Smithsonian’s role in the nation’s war efforts.
Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying
- Date: August 2, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000513, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Office of Public Affairs, Publicity Records, circa 1973-1984
- Date: 1973 1973-1984 circa 1973-1984
- Creator: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Office of Public Affairs
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
“Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark
- Date: March 13, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.
- Document
Torch 04/1968
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1968 Box 1 Folder 4
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 95-020, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Biodiversity Program, Program Records, 1986-1992
- Date: 1986 1986-1992
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Biodiversity Program
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Letter dated December 2, 1887, to Professor George Brown Goode, Director of the National Museum, expressing concerns about the conservation of bison
- Date: September 19, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000621, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Office of the Director, Exhibition Records, 1957-1973
- Date: 1957 1957-1973
- Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd
- Date: March 13, 2014
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.
The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37
- Date: May 13, 2014
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 00-066, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Under Secretary, Administrative Records, 1992-1999
- Date: 1992 1992-1999
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Under Secretary
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives