Results for "Smithsonian Collections Blog"
Celebrating 120 Years of the Smithsonian’s Photographic History Collection
- Date: July 14, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution has been collecting “specimens” related to the history of photography since photography was still considered a new technology? Learn about the evolution of our photography collection!
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What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and
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Sneak Peek: 5/25/2011
- Date: May 25, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Office of Public Affairs Photographic Collection
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Highlighting the photographic holdings at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
Unlocking the Vault
- Date: February 28, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.
Panda-Rama
- Date: July 11, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling arrive at the National Zoo.
Sneak Peek 10/10/2016
- Date: October 10, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Stereograph portrait of unidentified Smithsonian staff member modeling a hooded fur coat from Anthropology collections, MNH-1122A.
Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)
- Date: February 10, 2022
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Learn more about the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center and the impact this unit had in the study of marine science worldwide.
Open Access: Put a Bird On It
- Date: February 24, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!
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New Feature! Sneak Peek
- Date: May 18, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.
Sneak Peek 9/2/2013
- Date: September 2, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Botanical and entomological specimens from collections at the National Museum of Natural History.