Results for "Peabody Museum of Natural History"
Sneak Peek 4/21/2014
- Date: April 21, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Robert Purdy, a paleontologist at National Museum of Natural History, poses with shark jaws.
Sneak Peek 6/10/2013
- Date: June 10, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Researcher E. Banks with Ontonagon Copper Boulder at the National Museum of Natural History.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme
- Date: February 1, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker
Sneak Peek 4/8/2019
- Date: April 8, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Taxidermist Francis “Frank” Greenwell repairs a Nubian giraffe in an exhibit containing animals from Africa in the Hall of Mammals in the National Museum of Natural History, February 10, 1982, by Kim Nielsen, SIA Acc. 11-009, 82-2558-26A.
Sneak Peek 7/14/2014
- Date: July 14, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Richard Vari, Curator of Vertebrate Zoology, Department of Fishes, at the National Museum of Natural History.
Link Love: 4/17/2020
- Date: April 17, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret Collins
- Date: August 30, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The 1st African American female entomologist according to the Entomological Society of America, Dr. Margaret Collins, held professorships at Howard University, Florida A&M, and Federal City College, and was instrumental in building the termite collection at the National Museum of Natural History! #Groundbreaker
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Link Love: 8/6/2010
- Date: August 6, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 6, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.
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A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Phyllis Rudstrom Brenner
- Date: January 19, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers
- Date: January 11, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker