Results for "National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.). Computer History Project"
So, What is it?
- Date: June 21, 2016
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: In the process of scanning glass plate negatives, how do we determine what each image is when it comes with so little information attached?
Link Love: 3/1/2019
- Date: March 1, 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.
Bringing out the Animal in Art
- Date: December 22, 2015
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: On National Visit the Zoo Day, a look at a unique exhibition at the National Zoological Park, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Animal In Art,” an exhibit and series of “sketch-ins,” part of an international campaign for the World Wildlife Fund.
- Blog Post
“A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the 1960s
- Date: November 12, 2019
- Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.
- Blog Post
A Living Exhibition
- Date: July 19, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution has long been known for both its original research and its exhibitions. But, it was not until 1980 that the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first exhibited an on-going active research project, the world's first indoor living coral reef.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_7411,size=450,center]In the late 1960s, when NMNH paleobiologist Walter H. Adey
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/27/2010
- Date: May 27, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Workers laying the foundation for the U.S. National Museum Building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, looking southeast on June 2, 1905, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 5, Negative Number: 17526."][/caption]
Link Love: 9/27/2013
- Date: September 27, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Blog Post
To Market, To Market
- Date: August 14, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="U.S. National Museum, Street vendors at Center Market, by unknown photographer, 10/16/1909, Smithsonian Institution Archives RU79 Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, SIA2009-1992."][/caption] Interns and staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are digitizing historic
Happy Holidays (and a free card) from the Archives
- Date: December 12, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Happy Holidays 2011 from the Smithsonian Institution Archives and the Smithsonian's Field Book Project, with a free printable card featuring penguins from our collections.
Link Love: 5/1/2020
- Date: May 1, 2020
- 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.
Link Love: 6/24/2016
- Date: June 24, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Stanford David Rumsey Map Collection now has over 69,000 historic maps available online. [via KQED]Incredible color photos of Martin Luther King, some of which are part of our National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via NPR]Great news for geneologists! The Digital Public Library of America & FamilySearch International have signed an agreement that will
Link Love: 7/18/2014
- Date: July 18, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.