Results for "Search Collections"
Link Love: 12/12/2014
- Date: December 12, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 4/1/2011
- Date: April 1, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="View of the Thrift Drugs Pharmacy and Luncheonette at 533 Liberty Avenue, September 11th, 1952, P"][/caption] My chosen Friday time-suck?: geotag, explore, and help ID thousands of historic photos of Pittsburgh on Retrographer.org [via Marguerite Roby, SIA]. Pretty cool! Thousands of new objects from the Smithsonian’s
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Blue Gold
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Description: Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate the deaths of rare whales off the Mexican coast for a US marine agency. In their search, they find a California agribusiness tycoon trying to monopolize earth's fresh water reserves.
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A Photographer, Not a Terrorist
- Date: March 11, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Starting last fall, stories started popping up in the British media and online about photographers who’d been stopped by officials empowered to question and search them if they seemed suspicious or might have some links to terrorism.
The Archives New Website and Blog!
- Date: September 12, 2011
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ new home on the web! Since joining the Archives, I’ve been impressed by the staff’s enthusiasm for the collections are custodians of, and their level of commitment to making the collections available and useful to researchers and enthusiasts.
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Preserving “The World Is Yours”
- Date: January 23, 2020
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Here is a look into how the mixed media project of preserving The World Is Yours got its start.
Link Love: 05/14/2021
- Date: May 14, 2021
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Stumbling Upon . . . Calvin Coolidge
- Date: December 5, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The science and method of conducting research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Photo Research
- Date: March 7, 2011
- Description: Useful tips on researching the photographic collections at the Smithsonian.
A Quest for the First Asian Employee
- Date: May 10, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A search for the first Asian employee at the Smithsonian leads to Kuang-zung Tung.
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The Amazing Spider-Man
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Description: Teenager Peter Parker AKA Spider-Man, finds a mysterious briefcase that was his father's, he pursues a quest to solve his parents' disappearance. His search takes him to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, setting him on a collision course with Connors' alter ego, the Lizard.
Link Love: 8/9/2013
- Date: August 9, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.