Results for "Road Reports Across America (Blog)"
- Blog Post
Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair
- Date: October 19, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."
Congratulations National Air and Space Museum! 40 Years of Celebrations
- Date: June 30, 2016
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NASM building with a look back at several of the celebrations that took place there.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
- Blog Post
If a huge mass of garbage falls in the ocean and no one sees it, does it exist?
- Date: May 22, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The first thing that I thought of when we started discussing our new call for entry, "seeing other worlds," was Google Earth. When Google Earth first came out in 2004, I remember the novelty of being able to zoom into my hometown to point out details to college friends, and having them pan across their own homes and favorite travel spots. We could travel across the globe
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000498, Smithsonian Institution Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Records, 1974-1992
- Date: 1974 1974-1992
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Field Book
Clark, Herbert C., Panama, 1949-1951
- Date: 1949-1951 19490618 19510511
- Creator: Clark, Herbert C. (Herbert Colbert)
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, vol. 4
- Date: 1936 19360322 19360712
- Creator: Blackwelder, Richard E.
- Webpage
Archives of American Art
- Date: March 9, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...
- Date: July 17, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="This is America...Keep it Free!, Dorothea Lange, 1942, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that’s continuing to spread
- Blog Post
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
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-229, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.), Website Records, 2011
- Date: 2011
- Creator: National Museum of the American Indian
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Link Love: 6/4/2010
- Date: June 4, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="314" caption="The Amb. Richard B. Parker Photographs contains 200 black and white prints, 481 black and white negatives, and two black and white contact sheets of Islamic monuments in Algeria, Cairo, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, and Spain, 1965-1979, by Richard Bordeaux Parker, Unknown medium, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.