Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives. Institutional History Division"
Science Service: Up Close
- Date: May 19, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a
Smithsonian Institution Building, 1858
- Date: 1858
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back
- Date: May 15, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be
The Future Is Here
- Date: October 26, 2017
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: Welcome to the newly refreshed Smithsonian Institution Archives website! As our regular visitors may have noticed, we launched a new theme for our site on September 27, 2017. Our previous Drupal theme was first launched in 2011 when we moved our site over to Drupal. Since that time, we have upgraded the backend, made improvements to our searching, and increased the
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1885-1947
- Date: 1885 1885-1947
- Creator: United States National Museum Division of Plants
Archives Puzzles: 100 Years of the Smithsonian
- Date: November 23, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
- Blog Post
See Here: 9/6/2010
- Date: September 6, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="A project participant uses calipers to measure a tree on Barro Colorado Island during Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) census, similar to the one in Malaysia, on the biological diversity of tropical rainforests, 1985?, by Carl Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box
- SI History Bibliography
Physics
- Date: 1897
- Creator: Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin
- Creator: Mendenhall, Thomas Corwin
- SI History Chronology
"Plant Portraits" Opens at National Museum of Natural History
- Date: October 17, 1974
- SI History Bibliography
Memorial of the First Half-Century of the Smithsonian Institution
- Date: 1898
- Creator: Bolton, Henry Carrington
- Creator: Bolton, Henry Carrington
- Smithsonian Legal Document
Opinion on Objects of Natural History Belonging to the Government
- Date: 1866 06/10/1857
- Creator: Black, Jeremiah S
- Creator: Black, Jeremiah S
- Blog Post
See Here: 5/2/2011
- Date: May 2, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Wilson's Sheep at White House, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1986."][/caption]
