Results for "National Museum of American History (U.S.). Computer Services Center"
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New Feature! Sneak Peek
- Date: May 18, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.
Link Love: 3/30/2012
- Date: March 30, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
“The Proper Thing to Do": James Smithson’s Journey to Washington
- Date: June 27, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: On the 190th anniversary of the death of Smithsonian founding donor James Smithson, we’re taking a look back at his posthumous journey, led by Alexander Graham Bell, to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.
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Suppose We Decide to Dispose
- Date: October 28, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Interior of Office of Printing and Photographic Service's cold storage vault, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder September 1983, Negative Number 2004-10338."][/caption] To be sure, the Smithsonian has a lot of photographs. Millions of them in hundreds of
Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation
- Date: November 20, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.
Design + Archives: Posters
- Date: February 11, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.
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Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website
- Date: July 3, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.[edan-image:id=siris_arc_394342,size=500,center]New Finding Aids Online:National Air and Space Museum, Space History Department, Exhibition Records, 2000-2004, 2010-2016, Accession
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Elease Hall
- Date: February 10, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
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Heart of Glass
- Date: October 5, 2017
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
Moving Day
- Date: January 21, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: In November, Smithsonian Institution Archives moved over 3 million photographic negatives to a new state of the art facility at the Smithsonian Institution Support Center (SISC) in Hyattsville, Maryland.
Link Love: 6/28/2019
- Date: June 28, 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.
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.