Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Color Our Collections 2021
- Date: February 4, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Stuck inside and looking for a fun activity? Color the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives collections!
Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved
- Date: June 30, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”
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Archives Puzzles: Smithsonian’s First Paid Employee
- Date: August 9, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
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Smithsonian’s First Earth Day
- Date: April 20, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: How did the Smithsonian take part in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970?
Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor
- Date: July 18, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.
The Times They Are a-Changin' at The Bigger Picture
- Date: November 2, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This period of extended telework has allowed The Bigger Picture team to slow down and strategize about the future of the blog. Read about a few of the changes coming your way.
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Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- Date: January 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
Fashion in Place of Fish: A Glimpse into Web Preservation
- Date: August 13, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Why would a fashion video appear on an environmental blog? That’s the question I found myself asking while performing web quality assurance (aka web QA) on the blog for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has more to do with fish than it does with fashion. As an intern in the Digital Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, my work in
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Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: February 23, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.
Burn This Disc: Treating Fire-Affected Optical Discs, Part I
- Date: September 2, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This is part one of three in a series of blog posts about a research project on treating fire-affected optical discs. This month, we’ll introduce the project.
Coming Soon: Smithsonian 175th Film Fest
- Date: August 5, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Grab your popcorn! To mark the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary this year, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives will host monthly virtual programs featuring films from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Register today.
Archives Puzzles: 100 Years of the Smithsonian
- Date: November 23, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.