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Showing results 313 - 324 of 712 for Smithsonian African American Film Festival
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    See Here: 12/8/2010

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="371" caption="An exhibit case filled with West African wood carvings from an exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), which opened March 1, 1922, Herbert Ward was an explorer, soldier, author, and artist, who collected objects of

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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    The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

    • Date: September 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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  7. Crossness Pumping Station

    Link Love: 8/19/2016

    • Date: August 19, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Link Love: 8/23/2013

    • Date: August 23, 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.

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  11. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

    • Date: October 15, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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    The Enid A. Haupt Garden

    • Date: January 20, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.

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    See Here: 3/29/2010

    • Date: March 29, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="In April of 1913, East African lions, from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition (1909-1910) and mounted by George B. Turner, are placed on display in mammal hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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    Link Love: 11/22/2013

    • Date: November 22, 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.

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    Archives on View: National Portrait Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition

    • Date: September 7, 2017
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full

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  21. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

    • Date: May 25, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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  23. Freedom! Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement by Diana Davies

    • Date: January 18, 2010
    • Description: In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2010, we selected images from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's Diana Davies Photograph Collection. Davies began her career as a musician and became a photojournalist in the 1960s. During that time she documented Newport Folk Festivals, anti-poverty and Civil Rights movements, and farm workers' struggles. Her images,

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