Results for "Poverty"
Freedom! Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement by Diana Davies
- Date: January 18, 2010
- Description: In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2010, we selected images from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's Diana Davies Photograph Collection. Davies began her career as a musician and became a photojournalist in the 1960s. During that time she documented Newport Folk Festivals, anti-poverty and Civil Rights movements, and farm workers' struggles. Her images,
The Smithsonian and the Poor People's Campaign
- Date: January 17, 2017
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.
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SIA Acc. 13-097, National Science Resources Center (U.S.), Website Records, 2012
- Date: 2012
- Creator: National Science Resources Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Candles on the Water
- Date: February 3, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_11206" align="aligncenter" width="219" caption="Bells Rock Lighthouse, Chesapeake Bay, c. 1880s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: MAH-48182H."][/caption] We recently digitized a series of lighthouse images that led me on a surprising research path.
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Online Soul
- Date: June 7, 2010
- Description: One of the goals of THE BIGGER PICTURE blog is to highlight stories about the ways images delivered in an online environment can describe extraordinary events or comment equally powerfully on our everyday life. Our contributors talk about collections at the Smithsonian, about images or archives that are making headlines, or about people that make, care for, and think about
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SIA Acc. 14-051, National Science Resources Center (U.S.), Website Records, 2013
- Date: 2013
- Creator: National Science Resources Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU009538, John Kinard Oral History Interview, 1987
- Date: 1987
- Creator: Kinard, John, 1936-1989, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 18-137, Science Service, Records, 1907-1970
- Date: 1907 1907-1970
- Creator: Science Service
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Date: August 31, 2011
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Smithson’s Bequest to London’s East End
- Date: October 23, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When James Smithson wrote his will on October 23, 1826, he made several bequests to people before adding the contingent clause that created the Smithsonian Institution. One bequest was to a resident of London’s notorious East End.
The World Is Yours: Freer Gallery of Art
- Date: April 15, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours about the Freer Gallery of Art.
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James Thomas Gant
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8206,size=350,right]Born around 1815, James Thomas Gant was one of twelve children born to free parents on a plantation a few miles northeast of the Washington DC-line.1 As a free black man who lived through nearly the entire nineteenth century, he would see the Civil War, the destruction of slavery, the rise and fall of an all-too-brief period of