Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Smithsonian in Wartime – A New Web Exhibit!
- Date: August 9, 2016
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Announcing a new web exhibit exploring the Smithsonian’s role in the nation’s war efforts.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
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We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!
- Date: June 30, 2022
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.
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A Tale of Coffee and Collecting
- Date: November 30, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Archives are often used by genealogists to create their family histories. Often it's a tedious process that can involve many repositories throughout the country or even the world, but the final product can be fascinating. Take, for instance, Melbourne ("Mel") Romaine Carriker's Vista Nieve: The Remarkable True Adventures of an Early Twentieth Century Naturalist and His Family
Link Love: 1/25/2013
- Date: January 25, 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.
Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time
- Date: January 25, 2011
- Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted
Link Love: 1/13/2012
- Date: January 13, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Truth and Beauty
- Date: March 27, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Maud Slye, was a pathologist and tireless cancer researcher whose contributions to the role of genetics and cancer were game changing.
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What’s in a Name? Uncovering Early Women Computers
- Date: December 3, 2019
- Description: We’re uncovering names of some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.
Link Love: 1/8/16
- Date: January 8, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Aerial images of Washington D.C. from the Boston Public LIbrary. [via Ghosts of DC]Digital maps from University of Richmond's Digital Scholarship Lab and Stamen Design showing social, political, and economic movements in America. [via Smithsonian Magazine]How do you move over 800 space and aviation models? [via Air Space Blog]Perhaps forecasting a new fashion trend, "Design a
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Workflow Dynamics of Digital Preservation
- Date: December 16, 2014
- Description: Within the dynamic field of digital preservation, identifying the possibilities to maximize workflow is paramount to ensuring the greatest level of efficiency in digital asset management.
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Staff Pick from the National Museum of the American Indian
- Date: December 18, 2009
- Description: To mark American Indian Heritage Month this year, staff members from the Photo Archive at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), filled us in on the history of the collections recently made available on the NMAI Collections Search website. As a follow-up, they are sharing their personal favorites from the archive. Today we hear from Emily Moazami,