Results for "Power resources"
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Link Love: 1/7/2011
- Date: January 7, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Intersection of Adelaide and Creek Streets, Brisbane 1893 flood, State Library of Queensland - Negative number: 61449, Courtesy Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] A huge donation and lots of new photos to browse: the State Library of Queensland donates 50,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons [via Resource Shelf]. Thoughts on why
Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927
- Date: February 2, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.
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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.
Link Love: 7/22/16
- Date: July 22, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Beautiful new publication, Picturing Children, challenging stereotypes about African American children. [via NY Times]Now THIS is a 360...of Apollo 11! [via Smithsonian Magazine]Why not go big? Check out the first 3-D print of a supernova! [via Chandra X-ray Observatory and Smithsonian 3D]Archivist resource alert! The Getty's updated Introduction to Metadata. [via the
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Link Love: 4/22/2011
- Date: April 22, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Belle Grove, rear, White Castle vic., Iberville Parish, Louisiana, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print."][/caption] Oooo—a pretty resource I’ve not come across before. The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture
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NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years
- Date: December 12, 2013
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Design + Archives: Read All About It!
- Date: April 16, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The exhibition brochure for "Mathew Brady's Portraits," September 26, 1997 to January 4, 1998 at the National Portrait Gallery mimics a mid-19th century gazette.
The Search Server is Dead, Long Live the Search Server.
- Date: April 30, 2019
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: The Archives says goodbye to one search server while welcoming in a new one.
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Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings
- Date: August 3, 2017
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.
Bunch of Boxes
- Date: February 3, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In 2016 Lonnie G. Bunch donated his personal papers to the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The collection covers a wide variety of topics and spans the breath of Bunch's career from being an Education Specialist at the National Air and Space Museum to being Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 2, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.
Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928
- Date: August 11, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.