Results for "Naval history"
The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and The USS Edisto (AG-89) in Antarctica
- Date: 1947-1948
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To provide for the designation and conservation of certain public lands in the State of Alaska, including the designation of units of the National Park, National Wildlife Refuge, National Forest, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, and National Wilderness Preservation Systems, and for other purposes
- Date: 1981 12/02/1980
- Creator: 96th Congress, Sess. 2, 1980
- Creator: 96th Congress, Sess. 2, 1980
The USS Burton Island (AG-88) and the USS Edisto (AG-89) Breaking Ice
- Date: 1947-1948
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Letter from Charles D. Walcott to Captain Roger Welles to January 8, 1918
- Date: January 8, 1918 20th century
- Creator: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927
- Creator: Walcott, Charles D (Charles Doolittle) 1850-1927
The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Astronomers Often Go Awry: The 1901 Sumatra Eclipse Expedition
- Date: August 17, 2017
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Astronomers travel far and wide to see solar eclipses but sometimes their best laid plans don’t work out..
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009534, Classical Observation Techniques Videohistory Collection, 1988, 1991
- Date: 1988 1988-1991 1988, 1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Authority Record/EAC
Pederson, Harry
Joseph Henry's Letter to Alexander Bache (July 30, 1864)
- Date: July 30, 1864 Civil War, 1861-1865
- Creator: Henry, Joseph 1797-1878,Joseph Henry Papers Project
- Creator: Henry, Joseph 1797-1878,Joseph Henry Papers Project
- Document
Smithsonian in Popular Culture | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 98-020, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Department of Space History, Subject Files, 1983-1993
- Date: 1983 1983-1993
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Department of Space History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009520, Fred L. Whipple Oral History Interviews, 1976
- Date: 1976
- Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
An International Exploring Expedition
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]The first international scientific expedition sponsored by the United States circumnavigated the globe between 1838 and 1842, gathering natural history collections so vast they were estimated to weigh 40 tons. The U.S. Congress resolved to preserve these artifacts "collected at the expense of the government...Information about the first international
