Results for "Smithsonian Institution (Documentary film)"
Link Love: 10/19/2012
- Date: October 19, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Highlights from the 2018 Society of American Archivists Conference
- Date: September 11, 2018
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Here is a look at some of the most interesting presentations Archives staff attended at this year's Society of American Archivists conference.
Re-mounting the American Bison
- Date: February 25, 2016
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the
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To have and to hold (snap) . . .
- Date: December 30, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="392" caption="Miss Gloria Smith (Wedding) Deluxe Wedding Album, June 24,1956, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Cellulose acetate photonegative, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Call No. 0618.278269."][/caption] If events are heavily promoted as being once-in-a-lifetime
Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses
- Date: August 22, 2017
- Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.
Link Love: 1/27/2012
- Date: January 27, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Link Love: 12/31/2010
- Date: December 31, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="Stereo Images (Precipitating Snow) obtained using a Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) that is located in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the Electron Microscopy Unit, Beltsville Maryland, Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."][/caption] We have old-school photos of snow at the
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Snapshots of Transition: Native American Reservation Life in the Early 1900s
- Date: November 17, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="In this photo Reverend James O. Arthur poses on a sand dune at White Sands, New Mexico. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number: N53381."][/caption] This is the first entry in a series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. In this series we will be highlighting photos from the
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Tag! You're Saved!
- Date: October 25, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Fingers typing, by Simon Steiner, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."] [/caption] You know that sinking, then maddening feeling: you need to find something you’ve carefully put away, but can’t remember where you’ve stored it or how you characterized or labeled it. That common problem, when it’s blown up to institutional
Link Love: 7/15/2016
- Date: July 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A cook's delight: 3000 vintage cookbooks now available on the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]A growing online archive of Vernacular Typography. [via Hyperallergic]18th century toilets beget treasures! [via Huffington Post]Space travel plans? You can download the code that took America to the moon from GitHub. [via Quartz]Museums on my bucket list; Japan's museum for
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How to get out of a sticky situation!
- Date: October 22, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: When Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives archivist, Rachael Woody, was interviewed earlier this week about today's Archives Fair, she mentioned that dental floss can come in handy when it comes to removing photos from magnetic, or more aptly named, "sticky" albums. I for one know that all of my family photos are in "sticky" albums, and from
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Link Love: 12/6/2013
- Date: December 6, 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.