Results for "Pacific Islanders"
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.
Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
- Date: May 18, 2021
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.
Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!
- Date: January 30, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping
Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice
- Date: May 14, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."
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Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art
- Date: December 6, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.
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Link Love: 8/13/2010
- Date: August 13, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="147" caption="Walt Whitman, 1875, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Chalk on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.73."][/caption] Fascinating interview with poet Robert Roper, who dug into the National Archives to examine the moving letters poet Walt Whitman wrote to family
War Correspondents
- Date: July 26, 2012
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Discusses the opening of an exhibit When Time and Duty Permit: Smithsonian Collecting in World War II and the correspondence files that will be displayed.
A Salute to Scrapbooks
- Date: May 6, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In honor of National Scrapbooking Month, the Archives highlights the scrapbook of William and Lucile Mann from their trip to Argentina in 1939.
Digitization Sneak Peek: Summer in Phoenix (Islands)
- Date: November 20, 2018
- Creator: Charles Zange
- Description: Check out a few warm weather photos from the newest digitization efforts of our Field Book Project team.
The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 4
- Date: November 7, 2011
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 3
- Date: August 9, 2011
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017
- Date: July 6, 2017
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into