Results for "Research institutes"
Tips for Online Research at the Archives
- Date: October 6, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Little Things Mean a Lot
- Date: March 10, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="229" caption="Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) was a professor of biology at DePaul University and a world-renowned authority on krill when she began working on research ships off-shore in 1962, when this photograph was taken, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, cc. 90-105
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Answer me this?
- Date: May 19, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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How Hot Was It At Bull Run?
- Date: July 20, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Serendipity and Unexpected Connections
- Date: April 23, 2020
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”
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Family Affair
- Date: November 9, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), and his wife, Harriet Henry, and their daughters Caroline, Helen and Mary with croquet mallets on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c.
A Tasty Bite to Whet the Appetite
- Date: March 14, 2013
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: British botanist Kathleen Mary Drew-Baker (1901-1957), born in Leigh, Lancashire, is best known for her research on the edible seaweed Porphyra laciniata (nori) which is used in sushi.
Truth and Beauty
- Date: March 27, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Maud Slye, was a pathologist and tireless cancer researcher whose contributions to the role of genetics and cancer were game changing.
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Formidable: Women in Science
- Date: March 8, 2009
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!
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Hide and Seek
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete
The Nation's Refrigerator
- Date: May 15, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Children's art is put on exhibit throughout the country through the help of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
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Road trip!
- Date: June 29, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: It was July 1880 in Washington, DC and Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Baird, had fled the city with his family for cool ocean breezes and to study the fishing grounds off the New England coast at Woods Hole on Cape Cod. For those left behind minding the Smithsonian Castle, it was probably hot, humid, and hellish in town and they were in need of relief. Luckily, the proprietors