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.
#AskAnArchivist 2019: The Year of the GIF
- Date: October 3, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: You asked. We answered. On October 2, 2019, five Archive staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.
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.
&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.
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?
- Blog Post
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.
The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens
- Date: September 3, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 16-342, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of the History of Technology, Curatorial Records, 1839-2001
- Date: 1839 1839-2001
- Creator: National Museum of American History Division of the History of Technology
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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.
- Blog Post
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.