Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives. Institutional History Division"
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
Sneak Peek 9/2/2019
- Date: September 2, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Diving consultant Joseph Libbey, who taught and certified Smithsonian curators, technicians, and specialists as divers in connection to their work, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-10744-25.
The Tractors are Coming
- Date: February 5, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Revisit the Tractorcade on its 40th anniversary.
The Little Aquarium That Could
- Date: June 23, 2022
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: It's National Zoo and Aquarium Month! Let's explore the early days of the National Aquarium and its commitment to the promotion of marine science and aquaculture.
Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk
- Date: October 28, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.
Baby Got Backmark: A Closer Look at Card Photograph Mounts
- Date: May 6, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: A look at the elaborate graphics photographers used to advertise their businesses on the backs of 19th century card mounted photographs.
Sneak Peek 5/6/2019
- Date: May 6, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley, a 22-foot long replica of a dinosaur triceratops, 81-6787-23A.
Sneak Peek 7/22/2019
- Date: July 22, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Aerial view of the National Mall looking east from the Washington Monument during its first stage of building towards the U.S. Capitol, circa 1881, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8015A.
Sneak Peek 6/5/2017
- Date: June 5, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Comparative Anatomy exhibit in Osteological Hall at the United States National Museum, MNH-5354.
Sneak Peek 7/17/2017
- Date: July 17, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Skeletal restoration of Hadrosaurus foulkii mounted for exhibit in the United States National Museum, MNH-3485.
Sneak Peek 8/14/2017
- Date: August 14, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Sculptor John Weaver completes figures for ironworking diorama in "Peoples of Asia and Africa Hall," 72-3678.
Sneak Peek 3/30/2015
- Date: March 30, 2015
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Richard E. Ahlborn, Sara de Lavalle, and Constance Larco Hoyle, examine a collection of Peruvian silver, OPA-1117-11.