Results for "Science"
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Check!
- Date: June 29, 2010
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Fremont Davis (1915-1977) was a staff photographer for Science Service, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970."][/caption] It's always satisfying to put a big check mark next to a completed task, and this month
Annual Call for Help Identifying Women Scientists
- Date: March 8, 2012
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: This is our fourth annual call for help identifying scientists from the Archives’ collections for Women's History Month.
- Blog Post
Zoom In, Zoom Out
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire
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Who Are You?
- Date: March 30, 2009
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [caption id="attachment_311" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Former SIA Collections Storage, Smithsonian Institution Archives"][/caption] In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the fourth in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of
Documenting a Geologist's Adventures
- Date: December 11, 2012
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.
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Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website
- Date: July 3, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.[edan-image:id=siris_arc_394342,size=500,center]New Finding Aids Online:National Air and Space Museum, Space History Department, Exhibition Records, 2000-2004, 2010-2016, Accession
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Faces in the Crowd
- Date: March 3, 2011
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting new photos of women scientists to the Flickr Commons and highlighting these women in blog posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE, in honor of Women's History Month.[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="An unidentified woman (possibly Alice Haskins) sitting with U.S. Department of Agriculture,
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New Donation of Scopes Trial Photos to the Smithsonian Archives
- Date: February 3, 2010
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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A Ghost in the Archives: Robert Kennicott
- Date: October 27, 2016
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: A spooky coincidence leads to a forgotten Robert Kennicott document in the Smithsonian Archives.
- Blog Post
Finding Elizabeth
- Date: July 7, 2010
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="171" caption="Elizabeth Sabin Goodwin, c. 1920s–1970s, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession number: SIA2008-1965. "][/caption] If you put it on Flickr, will they come? Well in this case, the answer is, "yes." In March 2009 we posted a number of images of women
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: October 4, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: April 16, 2019
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.