Results for "Relations Between the Smithsonian and the Congress"
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000045, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Records, 1890-1929
- Date: 1890 1890-1929
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Smithsonian Seismological Institute
- Date: August 26, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: The Smithsonian proposed creating a Seismological Institute after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals
- Date: July 18, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.
- Blog Post
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
- Webpage
Case Study: Preservation Photocopying
- Date: May 5, 2017
- Description: The preservation photocopy, a reformatting format, arose in the mid-20th century when new forms of business documents - such as those produced by thermal printing (e.g. faxes and receipts) - suffered from “inherent vice,” or instability that included fading and other signs of deterioration.The National Archives and Records Administration recommended the use of copying by the
- SI History Bibliography
Professor Baird as Administrator
- Date: 1890
- Creator: Taylor, William B (William Bower) 1821-1895
- Creator: Taylor, William B (William Bower) 1821-1895
We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian
- Date: November 14, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.
- Webpage
This Day in SI History - march | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009583, Curtis W. Sabrosky Oral History Interviews, 1988
- Date: 1988
- Creator: Sabrosky, Curtis W. (Curtis Williams), 1910- , interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Document
Torch 11/1977
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1977 Box 1 Folder 11
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Garden
- Date: May 31, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,
- SI History Bibliography
The Smithsonian Institution, 1846-1896, The History of its First Half Century
- Date: 1897