Results for "Smithsonian Archeological Expedition to Mexico"
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Exploration of the Southern Continent
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=150,left]Much of the Smithsonian's early natural history collections came from Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The fourth Annual Report (1850) discusses several Latin American expeditions, in particular the exploration of islands near Nicaragua by Ephraim G. Squier, who served as U.S. charge d'affaires
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 05-143, Smithsonian Institution, Motion Pictures, circa 1927-1950
- Date: 1927 1927-1950 circa 1927-1950
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Beloit College archeological expedition members. Jordan Jeptha Markham (1916-2001), Thomas G. Coleman (1918-2007), Andrew Hunter Whiteford (1913-2006), Paul Homer Nesbitt (1904-1985), Barbara Rivet (1914-1990), Shirley Webb Kretschmer (1914-2016), and John William Bennett (1915-2005)
- Date: 1935
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935
- Date: July 24, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.
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Matthew Williams Stirling
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Matthew Stirling's career in anthropology and archaeology was spent almost entirely at the Smithsonian Institution. Geographically, it spanned from New Guinea to the Americas, and his contributions to scholarship were equally as broad. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and The George Washington University, he was both an active field worker
- Authority Record/EAC
Ernst, Wallace Roy
- Date: 1928 1971
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Island Voyagers: Caribbean Archaeology and Natural History
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish] Smithsonian scientists have a long history of collaborative research in the Caribbean. In 1914 a Smithsonian expedition traveled to western Cuba and the Colorados reefs to study land and marine geology, flora, and fauna. John Brooks Henderson, a member of the Smithsonian's Board of Regents, had collected marine mollusks in southern Florida and wanted a
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000192, United States National Museum, Permanent Administrative Files, 1877-1975
- Date: 1877 1877-1975
- Creator: United States National Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000192, United States National Museum, Permanent Administrative Files, 1877-1975
- Date: 1877 1877-1975
- Creator: United States National Museum
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian and Latin America
- Date: February 15, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has
- SI History Bibliography
Path to the Lost Cities: In the Footsteps of the Maya Explorers
- Date: 1998
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_arc_290975,size=200,left]Born in Newton, Massachusetts, his scientific career is divided into two distinct research fields and time periods. The first deals with marine zoology and the last with anthropology. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative
