Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
- Date: November 7, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.
Design + Archives: Read All About It!
- Date: April 16, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The exhibition brochure for "Mathew Brady's Portraits," September 26, 1997 to January 4, 1998 at the National Portrait Gallery mimics a mid-19th century gazette.
Announcing the Latest Release of DArcMail
- Date: December 9, 2021
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: The Archives has released its latest version of its open-source email preservation software suite for anyone to use.
All Aboard the Chesapeake Beach Railway!
- Date: July 12, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: A look at the train that once traveled between Chesapeake Beach and Washington, D.C.
So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?
- Date: July 16, 2019
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?
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Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
&072; is for Hamburger
- Date: May 28, 2020
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: On National Hamburger Day, let's take a moment to relish the technological hamburger.
An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book
- Date: May 18, 2017
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!
Revisiting the Arts and Industries Building
- Date: April 17, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Closed to the public since 2004, the Arts and Industries Building remains closed for the foreseeable future. Here is a look back at what used to be there.
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Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”
- Date: September 1, 2020
- Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.
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Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art
- Date: December 6, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.
Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology
- Date: March 14, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.