Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)
- Date: August 10, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!
Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian
- Date: August 10, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.
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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.
Happy Presidents' Day!
- Date: February 19, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Happy Presidents' Day from the Archives with images of Presidents from our collections.
Link Love: 7/12/2013
- Date: July 12, 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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Link Love: 9/11/2015
- Date: September 11, 2015
- 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: 3/2/2018
- Date: March 2, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Librarians at the White House Historical Association have digitized 25,000 previously uncatalogued slides! [via CNN]In case you missed it, the blog, Missing Scientists' Faces, shared 28 days of African American female scientists during Black History Month. [via @MissingSciFaces]Check out some of the Digital Public Library of America's primary source sets for Women's History
Everything I Own
- Date: February 6, 2020
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on
Design + Archives = Eames and the Mall Carousel
- Date: January 30, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: When Secretary Ripley commissioned Charles Eames to design a structure to enclose the carousel on the Mall.
Glaring Discs: Photographic Condition Documentation of Reflective Surfaces
- Date: March 19, 2020
- Description: The challenges of imaging the shiny surfaces of optical discs including CDs and DVDs.
Link Love: 1/6/2012
- Date: January 6, 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.
Link Love: 2/1/2013
- Date: February 1, 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.