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Scientific Snack Breaks: Picnics in the Field Books
- Date: July 13, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Go on a picnic through the field book collection, with a look at scientific snack breaks.
Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge
- Date: June 11, 2013
- Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.
- Blog Post
Digital Video Preservation: Further Challenges for Preserving Digital Video and Beyond
- Date: August 16, 2011
- Description: As one can expect, the complexity of digital video provides a few more factors to track and assess when compared with analog moving image counterparts in the archive.
Letter from H. Meigs to Asbury Dickens, Secretary of the Columbian Institutue, March 7, 1823
- Date: 1823 March 7, 1823
Canoes with Sails on Repulse Bay
- Date: 1924
- Creator: Hansen, Leo
- Creator: Hansen, Leo
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018
- Date: December 27, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- SI History Bibliography
Discourse, on the Objects and Importance of The National Institution for the Promotion of Science, Established at Washington, 1840, Delivered at the First Anniversary
- Date: 1841
- Creator: Poinsett, Joel Roberts
- Creator: Poinsett, Joel Roberts
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 22-123, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) National Air and Space Society, Event Records, 2003, 2006-2007, 2012-2016
- Date: 2006 2006-2016 2003, 2006-2007, 2012-2016
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. National Air and Space Society
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Can You Relate? Connecting SIA Collections with Themes in the Transcription Center
- Date: July 16, 2013
- Description: How Transcription Center themes open connections for Smithsonian Archives' collections that create relatedness, unveil stories, and ask new questions.
- SI History Bibliography
Sandstone, Canals, and The Smithsonian
- Date: Spring 1968
- Creator: Douglas, Paul H
- Creator: Douglas, Paul H
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 22-101, Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, Program Records, 1998-2019
- Date: 1998 1998-2019
- Creator: Smithsonian Material Culture Forum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
“Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth
- Date: May 7, 2020
- Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world. One of Thone’s correspondents was a
