Results for "Smithsonian Commons Prototype (Website)"
- SI History Bibliography
Joseph Henry: Inventor of the Telegraph?
- Date: 1999-2007
- Creator: Hochfelder, David 1965-
- Creator: Hochfelder, David 1965-
Technology Throwback Thursday: Snail Mail and Word Processors
- Date: July 10, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A brief look at the evolution of public inquiries at the Smithsonian.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 3/18/2011
- Date: March 18, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 3/26/2010
- Date: March 26, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="193" caption="Camel cigarette advertisement from Vanity Fair, 1934, by Unknown creator, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ID: SIL7-78-03."][/caption] Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society. Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I
- Blog Post
The Woman with the Gramophone
- Date: April 2, 2009
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,
- Blog Post
Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar
- Date: April 23, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information
Link Love: 4/12/2013
- Date: April 12, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000530, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Contracts and Procurement Office, Trust Fund Subcontracts, 1963-1968
- Date: 1963 1963-1968
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Contracts and Procurement Office
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000555, National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) Department of Education, Program Records, 1969-1982
- Date: 1969 1969-1982
- Creator: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Department of Education
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence
- Date: March 28, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.
- Blog Post
No We Can't
- Date: December 16, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 12/17/2010
- Date: December 17, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers