Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lisa Kathleen Graddy
- Date: April 19, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Deputy Chair of political history at the National Museum of American History, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, chooses artifacts to represent the American political landscape, and has curated popular exhibits on the first ladies and the women's suffrage movement. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever
- Date: July 11, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers
- Date: January 11, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker
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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.
A New Solution for an Old Scrapbook
- Date: November 14, 2017
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Archives recently received several scrapbooks created by Elizabeth C. Reed during her husband's tenure as Director of the National Zoological Park (NZP). These scrapbooks contain information about noteworthy events and consist mostly of newspaper clippings gathered from newspapers around the country. Anyone who's attempted to preserve scrapbooks can tell you it's a bit of
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Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude
- Date: December 31, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of
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When Good People Love Bad Pictures
- Date: August 19, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1954" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Squirrel Kisses, by Flickr user (Alex)."][/caption] It’s summer, so time for a break from serious thoughts about photographs, their meaning and impact. Instead, let’s relax and have a laugh about the pictures that make us laugh. A recent article in the business section of Time magazine describes how Ben
Link Love: 02/19/2021
- Date: February 19, 2021
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 12/04/2020
- Date: December 4, 2020
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Women In Science Wednesday: Dorothy Maud Wrinch
- Date: October 8, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.
Women In Science Wednesday: Wynne Sharples (Ballinger)
- Date: October 22, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.
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Save the Date: Archives Month Facebook Live!
- Date: October 20, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On October 27, 2016,12 p.m. EST, we will host a Facebook Live with our archives conservator, Nora Lockshin, and digitization specialist, Kira Sobers. They will give you a peek at the process of taking a historic diary from conservation, to digitization, to transcription by our volunteers on the Transcription Center! We'll keep which diary a secret until the day of, but it just