Results for "Smithsonian Environmental Research Center"
Link Love: 11/16/2018
- Date: November 16, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Telling the Story: Illuminating Native Heritage through Photography
- Date: November 23, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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The Time Has Come
- Date: February 8, 2011
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [caption id="attachment_11359" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup Design for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Courtesy NMAAHC."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER
Link Love: 07/24/2020
- Date: July 24, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on John Lewis’s legacy at the Smithsonian and beyond. [via Smithsonian Magazine] The newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library awaits its first patrons! [via Washington Post][edan-image:id=siris_arc_389626,size=450,center]Paleontologist Lee Hall offers a handy (claw-y) guide to digging up dinosaur bones. [via Mateusz
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I Found It In the Archives
- Date: October 14, 2010
- Creator: Ginger Yowell
- Description: As you may know, the Smithsonian is celebrating Archives Month this October. This year, the Society of American Archivists is observing the month with the theme "I Found It in the Archives," which is meant to promote the treasures and gems that researchers find in archival collections, such as genealogical information about their families or materials related to their special
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Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse
- Date: June 25, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.
Capturing Change
- Date: October 22, 2019
- Description: Forests change over time, and so do the approaches of organizations that seek to protect them.
Following a Thread of History: Mildred M. Glover
- Date: September 12, 2019
- Description: An intern’s experience following a thread to learn more about an exceptional Smithsonian employee, Mildred Glover.
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Link Love: 7/4/2014
- Date: July 4, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Tis the Season at the Smithsonian
- Date: December 20, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: How the Smithsonian celebrated the holidays in 1977, and what traditions continue today!
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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.
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Link Love: 7/29/2011
- Date: July 29, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: An important part of the museum story that we often forget: how the objects got there in the first place. Donors’ stories often reveal the fascinating and complicated path that object take before they come into the Smithsonian’s collections. Here’s a great read on a family who collected celluloid (plastic) souvenirs, jewelry, products, and knick-knacks, that now reside at the