Results for "National Conference of Business Paper Editors"
Project SEARCH Comes to the Archives
- Date: June 16, 2015
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: This spring, the Archives welcomed Heather Weiss, a Project SEARCH intern, and as her time with us comes to an end, we wanted to highlight her accomplishments.
- Blog Post
Digitized Photos and Back Stories
- Date: October 22, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.
Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020!
- Date: December 31, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2020, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2019.
Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt
- Date: April 18, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.
Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter
- Date: March 5, 2020
- Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was
- Blog Post
Archives on View: National Portrait Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition
- Date: September 7, 2017
- Creator: Charles Zange
- Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full
17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)
- Date: August 10, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!
Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People
- Date: March 21, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.
- Blog Post
Earth Day
- Date: April 19, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In September 1989 the Smithsonian sponsored a discussion between scientists and journalists about how the media can responsibly report on environmental issues.
- Blog Post
We Don't Know about You, But We’re Feeling (20)22
- Date: December 30, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.
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.
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher
- Date: August 23, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who