Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Archives"
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See Here: 12/24/2009
- Date: December 24, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Secretary Samuel P. Langley studying and photographing birds in flight from a tower on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, 1901, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 10, Negative
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See Here: 12/31/2009
- Date: December 31, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
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Transferring Permanent Records to the Archives
- Date: October 6, 2017
- Description: Smithsonian museums and units must follow these instructions when transferring permanent records to the Archives. The instructions apply both to units in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and to units outside of the area. Step 1 Consult the Smithsonian-wide or appropriate unit-specific (staff only) records disposition schedule. If the records are not covered by the
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Smithsonian in Popular Culture | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Smithsonian Research Centers
- Date: May 12, 2011
- Description: History of the Smithsonian's research centers devoted to the study of art, culture, science, and history.
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See Here: 1/7/2010
- Date: January 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Guion S. Bluford poses with his spacesuit in the National Air and Space Museum for a Smithsonian public service announcement, May 21, 1984, by Kim Nielsen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder July 1984, Negative number:
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Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017
- Date: July 6, 2017
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into
Here's Looking at You
- Date: June 25, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Smithsonian Television Series Debuts on CBS | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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From Defense to Decoration: the Renwick Gallery in the Civil War
- Date: August 22, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Into the Future
- Date: January 21, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="196" caption="Pioneers to the Past, Exhibition catalogue, Image courtesy of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago."][/caption] Archives now! The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago has just opened an exhibition, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-20, in a very interesting
Rewinding American Archives Month: #ArchivesAVTakeover
- Date: November 5, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This American Archives Month, we teamed up with archivists and conservators around the Smithsonian for five Instagram takeovers to highlight the breadth of the Institution's audiovisual collections.