Results for "Photographers"
- Blog Post
Everyone into the White House Photo Pool!
- Date: May 28, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1085" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Barack Obama and health care executives leave the State Dining Room of the White House following a press statement May 11, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson."][/caption] A few days ago, watching TV and seeing Barack Obama face yet another gaggle of photographers and
Link Love: 6/7/2013
- Date: June 7, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- SI History Bibliography
De Lancey W. Gill: Photographer for the Bureau of American Ethnology
- Date: January 1983
- Creator: Glenn, James R
- Creator: Glenn, James R
- Blog Post
Going for a bike ride? Don’t forget the camera!
- Date: July 15, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Untitled, by Unidentified photographer, c. 1905, Smithsonian Institution Archives"][/caption] In keeping with our summer travel theme, I began to investigate some of the ways in which photographers were first able to travel with their cameras. To give a brief background, the invention of photography in 1839 coincided with
- Blog Post
Link Love: 7/2/2010
- Date: July 2, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7288" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Baseball Photographer Trading Card: Ansel Adams, 1975, by Mike Mandel."][/caption] What happens when you mix baseball cards with famous photographers? I’m loving Mike Mandel’s 1975 Baseball Photographer Trading Cards project posted over at Fans in a Flashbulb. The Tenement Museum in downtown New York has
Link Love: 12/26/2014
- Date: December 26, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A find for early animation - Archivists at Norway's National Library discovered a missing animation film, Empty Socks, about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse. [via The National Library of Norway]A fascinating look at the workshop of Kenji Yamaguchi, a National Geographic employee who builds camera contraptions for their photographers. [via Proof,
- Blog Post
In Her Own Image
- Date: March 30, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Recent Photography Exhibitions in DC
- Date: June 1, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Mounted Cyanotypes, the Working Proofs for Eadweard Muybridge's Animal Locomotion, Plate 55, "Walking, Turning Around, Action of Aversion" (Miss Larrigan, July 28, 1885), by Eadweard Muybridge, Cyanotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications,
- Blog Post
Link Love: 1/9/2014
- Date: January 9, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Science Service: Up Close
- Date: May 19, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a
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Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science
- Date: June 12, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
- Blog Post
Link Love: 1/8/2010
- Date: January 8, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.