Results for "Natural History Society of Delaware"
- Blog Post
Family Vacation
- Date: March 24, 2009
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.
Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!
- Date: May 1, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.
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Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers
- Date: March 26, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.
Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives
- Date: May 2, 2013
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science
Happy Birthday, Mr. Taylor!
- Date: March 19, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Reminiscences of Frank A. Taylor, founding director of the National Museum of American History which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2020
- Date: October 15, 2020
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair
- Date: October 3, 2017
- Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s
- Blog Post
“Fair Women Seeking Secrets of Plant and Animal Phenomena”
- Date: March 3, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Exploring news coverage of women’s work in the sciences at the Smithsonian in the early twentieth century.
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Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment
- Date: May 3, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.
One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings
- Date: May 28, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.
Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds
- Date: April 7, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.