Results for "Road Reports Across America (Blog)"
Fostering Collaboration for the Public Good: Sphagnum Moss and WWI
- Date: May 23, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: A look at one of the many ways the Smithsonian’s mission to increase and diffuse knowledge brought scientific knowledge to aid the public good.
A Race On the Wild Side
- Date: February 21, 2013
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Ride along as two young boys go on the adventure of lifetime, racing a stolen horse and buggy around Washington, D.C.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes
- Date: 1909 05/27/1908
- Creator: 60th Congress, Sess. 1, 1908
- Creator: 60th Congress, Sess. 1, 1908
Link Love: 5/6/2016
- Date: May 6, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Marines are investigating a possible case of mistaken identity in the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo. [via NPR]The little known history behind Cinco de Mayo. [via Smithsonian Magazine]A short film on the Smithsonian's incredible whale skeleton collection. [via Hakai Magazine]The Prelinger Archives has published 6600 public domain films to the Internet Archive! [via Open Culture]A
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-208, Smithsonian Latino Center, Website Records, 2012-2015
- Date: 2012 2012-2015
- Creator: Smithsonian Latino Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: March 12, 2015
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris
- Date: August 13, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain during the 1871–73 Polaris Expedition.
Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Michigan and Minnesota, March 23-April 13, 1907
- Date: 1907 19070323 19070413
- Creator: Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-021, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records, 1968-2010
- Date: 1968 1968-2010
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 95-161, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records, c. 1980-1993
- Date: 1980 1980-1993 c 1980-1993
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!
- Date: June 1, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.
Diary no. IV [4], July, 1928-August, 1928 : summer expedition to Ningyuenfu via Yachow
- Date: 1928 19280704 19280928
- Creator: Graham, David Crockett