Results for "Museums"
Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium
- Date: May 12, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.
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Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success
- Date: December 18, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.
Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
- Date: November 7, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.
Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency
- Date: May 26, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.
Election Collection: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Date: October 25, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In celebration of our friends at the National Archives’ #ElectionCollection campaign, we are sharing some unique photos of U.S. Presidents in our collection.
"Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections
- Date: October 10, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.
Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects
- Date: October 15, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.
Election Collection: William Howard Taft
- Date: October 11, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In celebration of our friends at the National Archives’ #ElectionCollection campaign, we are sharing some unique photos of U.S. Presidents in our collection.
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Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935
- Date: July 24, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.
Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions
- Date: July 19, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting
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Par for the Course
- Date: July 18, 2011
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,
Television and the Smithsonian: The Moon Party and "Instant History"
- Date: November 27, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On July 20, 1969, television broadcasters and Smithsonian visitors joined in watching history in the making when astronauts stepped onto the Moon.