Results for "National Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Institution"
Stabilizing Lacquer Transcription Discs
- Date: October 18, 2018
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Improved physical housing is one step you can take to help extend the life of your audiovisual media. Take a look at the new housing for lacquer transcription disc recordings from The World is Yours radio programs.
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A Tale of Two Sisters
- Date: August 4, 2021
- Description: Why would an English chemist donate his fortune to the United States, a newly formed country he had never visited? We will likely never know exactly why in 1826 James Smithson chose to bequeath more than half a million dollars to create the Smithsonian Institution.
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Preservation Management
- Date: April 20, 2017
- Description: Managing archival collections requires a comprehensive approach that incorporates identifying needs, establishing priorities, and allocating resources to meet goals. PoliciesSmithsonian Directives (SDs) serve as the authoritative source for policy information about the management, administrative, and programmatic operations of the Institution. The Archives closely follows the
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SIA RU007117, Abbott, William Louis 1860-1936, William Louis Abbott Papers, 1887-1923
- Date: 1887 1887-1923
- Creator: Abbott, William Louis, 1860-1936
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
A Glimpse into the Past: A look at the contents of an early 20th century diary
- Date: August 13, 2013
- Description: In conservation it can be easy to overlook the content of an item and just get on with the treatment. Here is a case where overlooking the content was simply not possible.
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Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian
- Date: April 28, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals
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The Woman with the Gramophone
- Date: April 2, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Panama Law No. 57, Authorizing the contract between the Government of Panama and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: 06/06/1974
- Creator: Panama National Council on Legislation (translated by U.S. Dept of State Division of Language Services)
- Creator: Panama National Council on Legislation (translated by U.S. Dept of State Division of Language Services)
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
- Field Book
Pele Expedition, 1967
- Date: 1967 1967 1967
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.). Division of Mollusks
- Field Book
FL Amherst-SI Expedition 1925
- Date: 1900-1935 1900 1935
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Vertebrate Paleontology
Crafting the Archives Way!
- Date: December 8, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.