Results for "Popular culture"
Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations
- Date: December 3, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.
Trees of Christmas
- Date: December 19, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 06-018, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Home and Community Life, Curatorial Records, 1962-2005
- Date: 1962 1962-2005
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Home and Community Life
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Down at the Drive-In
- Date: August 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.
- Blog Post
See Here: 4/5/2010
- Date: April 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Annual Easter Egg Roll on Easter Monday at the National Zoological Park, At the top of the hill is the original 1891 Animal House (Lion House) designed by William R. Emerson. By the turn of the century the National Zoological Park had become a popular spot to spend Easter Monday, c. 1900s, by Unknown photographer,
- SI History Bibliography
A New Voice of Science: Science Service Under Edwin E. Slosson, 1921-29
- Date: 1979
- Creator: Rhees, David J
- Creator: Rhees, David J
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-200, Bunch, Lonnie G, Lonnie G. Bunch Papers, 1952-2010
- Date: 1952 1952-2010 19th century
- Creator: Bunch, Lonnie G.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Memorandum for Mr. William deC. Ravenel, June 5, 1918
- Date: June 5, 1918 20th century
- Creator: Belote, Theodore T
- Creator: Belote, Theodore T
Easter Monday at the National Zoo
- Date: early 1900s
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Blog Post
Fame ... By Any Other Name
- Date: March 20, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.
- Document
Washington Academy of Sciences Is Incorporated | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834-1906
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
