Results for "National Museum of American History (U.S.). Smithsonian Jazz"
Link Love: 1/12/2018
- Date: January 12, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Conservation wonder puppy, Riley, was brought to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts to sniff out pests that could damage the artwork! #jealous [via NY Times]A tender adaptation of the Velveteen Rabbit with new illustrations. [via Brain Pickings]A 3-D printed puzzle that allows you to test your architectural knowledge, from architect Fumio Matsumoto. [via Hyperallergic]Game of
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022
- Date: July 21, 2022
- Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: May 2, 2017
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored this spring by researchers at the Archives.
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.
New Orleans Street Parade
- Date: December 12, 2017
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Every year at its annual conference, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) hosts an event called Archival Screening Night (ASN). ASN is a chance for moving image archivists around the world to showcase films and videos from their collections, particularly items that have recently been preserved, restored, or remastered.This film depicts the Onward Brass Band
Here at the Smithsonian: Art Conservation
- Date: January 26, 2021
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Check out these two newly-available clips from Here At The Smithsonian!
Not Your Average Moving Day
- Date: April 2, 2013
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: A slideshow of objects being moved at the Smithsonian Institution.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Arianna Curtis
- Date: January 10, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
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See Here: 7/1/2011
- Date: July 1, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Image of Merle Crisler Foshag and her husband William F. Foshag, Curator in the U.S. National Museum's Department of Geology, The two are standing amid flowers, while on Foshag's scientific expedition to Tepoztlán, Mexico, 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record
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Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art
- Date: December 6, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.
Women in the Office of Protection Services
- Date: March 12, 2019
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.