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- Blog Post
Happy paper anniversary?
- Date: October 7, 2010
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: [caption id="attachment_8465" align="alignright" width="199" caption="Beth Antoine, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, conducts research on the letter or copy press books of Secretary Spencer F. Baird, Courtesy of Nora Lockshin."][/caption] One year ago on October 8th, after several years of planning, waiting, and building, the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation
- Blog Post
Link Love: 12/17/2010
- Date: December 17, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers
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.
- Webpage
Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
- 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.
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.
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.
Canoes with Sails on Repulse Bay
- Date: 1924
- Creator: Hansen, Leo
- Creator: Hansen, Leo
Letter from H. Meigs to Asbury Dickens, Secretary of the Columbian Institutue, March 7, 1823
- Date: 1823 March 7, 1823
- 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
- SI History Bibliography
Sandstone, Canals, and The Smithsonian
- Date: Spring 1968
- Creator: Douglas, Paul H
- Creator: Douglas, Paul H
