Results for "Smithsonian Associates. Studio Arts Program"

     
    Showing results 733 - 744 of 858 for Smithsonian Associates. Studio Arts Program
    1. View from the grounds of a cathedral. A few people wander around the lawn outside of the structure.

      Field Books Go to Oxford!

      • Date: October 23, 2018
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: See how our conservation staff are sharing treatment ideas with colleagues across the world.

    2.  
    3. Black and white photo of woman wearing cat eye glasses with short hair smiling.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

      • Date: April 12, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Bonus anecdote about Dr. Pettitbone:"While standing in line for a job interview during WWII, she overheard that men standing in the next line were going to get paid much more than those in her line. She then switched lines and became a spot welder, rather than a typist."

    4.  
    5. Blog Post

      The Quest for Walcott's Quarry

      • Date: September 15, 2009
      • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_2239" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="881. View of the cliff of Mount Burgess from the west slope of Mount Field, three (3) miles north of Field on the Canadian Pacific Railway (British Columbia, Canada). By C.D. Walcott, 1910. 4 x 5" kodak film. Digital image taken directly from nitrate negative.

    6.  

    7. Link Love: 8/20/2021

      • Date: August 20, 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.

    8.  
    9. Bessels with starfish in background.

      Color our Collections

      • Date: October 22, 2020
      • Description: Grab your colored pencils. It’s National Color Day!

    10.  
    11. Blog Post

      Avatar. A Photographic Game-Changer?

      • Date: January 20, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: A few days ago, I went to an IMAX 3D showing of Avatar to see for myself if the movie is a “game-changer,” as many have suggested. And, it is, but in a way no one seems to be focusing on—the way it acknowledges and exploits photography’s power to shape both everyday and alternate realities. What struck me, as soon as the movie started, was how sophisticated the film’s

    12.  
    13. Blog Post

      Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers

      • Date: July 28, 2011
      • Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of

    14.  
    15. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

      Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

      • Date: December 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

    16.  
    17. “Flat John” Visits the Smithsonian Castle, 2015, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

      Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium

      • Date: May 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.

    18.  
    19. The original black-paged album, a document box with archival file folders for historic documents and oversize pictures, and the new preservation album, with the photos stabilized with Mylar corners (also, note a piece of thick paper, acrylic square, and the small glass frog paperweight, which were placed on the photograph to keep it in place while the corners were slipped on from the sides).

      Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project

      • Date: November 24, 2010
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull

    20.  
    21. Preservation Week is April 27 to May 3, 2014. May Day is a time to reflect and do something to better prepare for emergencies at your archives, library, museum, historical society, or preservation organizations.

      What is the PRICE of Emergencies on Cultural Heritage?

      • Date: May 1, 2014
      • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
      • Description: In honor of MayDay – Do One Thing for Emergency Preparedness, 2014, here is an item of interest about a new group at the Smithsonian called Preparation and Response in Collections Emergencies (PRICE) and resources on Incident Command in emergencies for cultural heritage organizations.

    22.  
    23. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

    24.  
    Showing results 733 - 744 of 858 for Smithsonian Associates. Studio Arts Program

    Pages