Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives"
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See Here: 5/23/2011
- Date: May 23, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="295" caption="Letter written "To the Meteorological Observers of the Smithsonian Institution: The Ministry of Public Instruction in Italy, desiring to ascertain whether the aurora borealis makes its appearance simultaneously, or at the same moment of absolute time, on different meridians, have requested the Smithsonian Institution to
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The Archives Contributes to a new Website on the Burgess Shale
- Date: December 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives contributes images to a new website about the Burgess Shale, a paleontological site located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, by Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada.
- Blog Post
See Here: 7/27/2010
- Date: July 27, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="DeCarlo Wiley, National Air and Space Museum guard and Smithsonian basketball team guard, 1978, by Susan Foster, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978, Negative Number: 94-2879."][/caption]
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Kirsten Tyree
- Date: November 26, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/10/2009
- Date: December 10, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="423" caption="Star Exhibit at Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1976, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 287 Box 18 Folder 13, Negative Number:95-20305."][/caption]
- Blog Post
See Here: 12/8/2009
- Date: December 8, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Taxidermists Mounting Hippopotamus, 1930s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews, Negative Number:MAH 11087-A."][/caption]
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How does the Smithsonian Institution Archives determine which records to keep and which to discard?
- Date: June 6, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Smithsonian Institution and United States National Museum (USNM) Publications
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: These publications are available in the Archives Reading Room. United State National Museum publications are indexed in Bulletins of the USNM 193 and 298. Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846–1964. These volumes include scientific articles, and are sources of information on the Smithsonian budget, exhibitions, expeditions, collections, staff, and other
Field Work and a World War
- Date: July 12, 2012
- Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.
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Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own
- Date: July 1, 2010
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:
Link Love: 10/14/2011
- Date: October 14, 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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Other Frequently Used Smithsonian Institution Records
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8947,size=180,right]Record Unit 60, Meteorological Project, Records, 1849–1875 Most of these records are requests for weather data, or requests from researchers interested in the correspondence of an observer who worked on Secretary Joseph Henry’s Smithsonian Meteorological Project.Record Unit 70, Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and