Results for "Satire"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-077, Geological Survey (U.S.) Geologic Branch, Records, 1937
- Date: 1937
- Creator: Geological Survey. Geologic Branch
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Field Book
Hawaii, 1923 : memorabilia
- Date: 1923 1923 1923
- Creator: Wetmore, Alexander, 1886-1978
"The Times" Engraving
- Date: September 7, 1762
- Creator: Hogarth, William
- Creator: Hogarth, William
Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg
- Date: November 24, 2020
- Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have
Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home
- Date: October 6, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of
- SI History Chronology
"Pharmacy in Prints" Opens at National Museum of History and Technology
- Date: September 5, 1977
- SI History Chronology
"Peggy Bacon" Opens at the NCFA
- Date: December 5, 1975
- Webpage
The Smithsonian in Books
- Date: July 10, 2013
- Description: A list of books which reference the Smithsonian.
Portrait of Stephen Colbert at the National Museum of American History
- Date: April 1, 2008
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 95-158, National Portrait Gallery (U.S.) Office of Exhibitions, Records, 1972-1994
- Date: 1972 1972-1994
- Creator: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Celebrating Handwriting with the Hungerford Deed
- Date: January 21, 2021
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Handwriting is a personal passion of mine, despite it having become something of a lost art. Today, when most people think of handwriting at all, it is as a greatly individual method of writing recognizable characters, regardless of the writing system, but in the past, when you could make a living as a scribe, there were highly standardized styles.
- Webpage
The Smithsonian in Popular Culture
- Date: July 11, 2013
- Description: How is the Smithsonian, with its museums full of specimens and research labs full of scientists, portrayed in movies, novels, television, and videogames? Smithsonian staff and the iconic buildings they work in have been portrayed in mysteries, romances, dramas, comedies, and science fiction. Often, the ways that museum curators, explorers, and lab researchers and what they do
