Results for "Rube Goldberg: Or Doing It the Hard Way (Motion picture : 1970)"
What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization
- Date: May 19, 2020
- Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.
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What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and
Diary, January 27, 1924 to September 21, 1924
- Date: 1924 19240127 19240921
- Creator: Graham, David Crockett
A Tale of Three Contracts
- Date: September 5, 2019
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: An exciting new accession sheds light on James Smithson’s family history and fortune.
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Torch 06/1968
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1968 Box 1 Folder 6
Diary no. 6, February 15, 1929-June 13, 1929
- Date: 1929 19290215 19290613
- Creator: Graham, David Crockett
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Every Snowflake a Unique Jewel
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Too Many to Count
- Date: September 24, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests
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Louis R. Purnell
- Date: August 23, 2016
- Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and
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Torch 03/1979
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1979 Box 1 Folder 3
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Welcome Back: It’s Almost Like Riding a Bike
- Date: July 28, 2022
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: We are getting back into the swing of things at the office while working with removable media.
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How to Do Oral History
- Date: May 7, 2020
- Description: Oral history is a technique for generating and preserving original, historically interesting information – primary source material – from personal recollections through planned recorded interviews.