Results for "Smithsonian Congress of Scholars Council"
- Blog Post
The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian
- Date: March 27, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-226, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Information Technology and Society, Curatorial Records, 1954-2004
- Date: 1954 1954-2004
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Information Technology and Society
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents
- Date: March 9, 2011
- Description: Information on the Board of Regents through the Smithsonian's history.
The Smithsonian Seismological Institute
- Date: August 26, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: The Smithsonian proposed creating a Seismological Institute after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.
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SIA Acc. 99-004, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars United States Studies Program, Records, 1987-1994
- Date: 1987 1987-1994
- Creator: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. United States Studies Program
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU000281, Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for History and Art, Records, 1966-1980, with related records from 1961
- Date: 1961 1961-1980 1966-1980, with related records from 1961
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for History and Art
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 98-154, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Office of the Director, Records, 1968-1990
- Date: 1968 1968-1990
- Creator: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Naturalist of the Americas: Alexander Wetmore
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and avian paleontologist, was the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary (1945-1952). As a young biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wetmore conducted extensive fieldwork in Latin America. He spent 1911 in Puerto Rico studying bird life, and later traveled through South
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An Institution Emerges
- Date: February 16, 2017
- Description: Joseph Henry - First Smithsonian Secretary, 1846-1878"A new impulse will thus be given to investigation in every department of science; and learned men will know that through you they will be able to make their discoveries available to their brethren throughout the civilized world." —Letter from Francis Wayland to Secretary Joseph Henry, December 19, 1848 Perhaps the country's
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SIA RU009572, F. Raymond Fosberg Oral History Interviews, 1993
- Date: 1993
- Creator: Fosberg, F. Raymond (Francis Raymond), 1908-1993, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA Acc. 18-089, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Administrative Records, 2015
- Date: 2015
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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All-American Compromise
- Date: February 16, 2017
- Description: Laying the Foundations: Early Schools of ThoughtWith few national institutions on which to model their thinking, many Americans built their plans for the Smithsonian around the notion of a national university.The debate moved quickly from, Should we create a national university? This page describes the 1838-1846 debates about what form the Smithsonian Institution should take.