Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="291" caption="A storage area, used by the Division of Insects at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, has cabinets and shelves of books, c. 1915, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9555, Box 1, John Frederick Gates Clarke
Description: All records maintained by Smithsonian Institution museums and units, regardless of their format, must be appraised by the Smithsonian Institution Archives before they can be discarded, destroyed, or transferred to the Archives or the Records Center. For detailed information regarding the Archives’ appraisal decision-making process, see the Appraisal Methodology. The following
Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6847,size=300,left]The records of the Office of the Secretary are arguably the most important group of records in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, with the highest research value in the Archives. Researchers can conduct focused searches on records from the Office of the Secretary in the Archives' Collection Search. From the beginning of the
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Division of Radiation and Organisms Laboratory, located in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building, a division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory dedicated to studying the effects of solar radiation on organisms. Shown here is a vacuum type thermocouples of very high sensitivity, used in