Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.
Description: Savage Beauty, the posthumous and retrospective exhibition of women’s fashions designed by Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art closed early in August. The record breaking event—an official attendance count of 661,509 visitors made it the eighth biggest show in the museum’s history—featured approximately one hundred ensembles drawn, primarily,
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="Georgia O'Keefe at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) with Rene Magritte's sculpture "Delusions of Grandeur," 11 November 1977, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1977, Negative Number: 92-1789."][/caption] It is always fascinating
Description: Molecular geneticist and distinguished professor, Dr. Elisabeth Gannt, was a research associate at the Smithsonian's Radiation Biology Laboratory where she studied algae photosynthesis, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 when only 5 percent of the members were women. #Groundbreaker
Description: Help us find a photograph of Eunice Newton Foote! Scientist Eunice Newton Foote, in 1856, was the 1st to speculate that modest increases in CO2 concentration could result in atmospheric warming, and was a contributor to the Smithsonian's weather data project.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Behind the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the "Castle," is the site of the Smithsonian's museum complex on Independence Avenue, 1987, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 410 Box 3 Folder Quad with Street, Negative Number: 87-7964-1."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="attachment_1319" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="AIR TRANSPORT, AIRLINES, USA., 1950s, by Rudy Arnold, National Air and Space Museum, Archives Division "][/caption] As my colleague Effie mentioned back in April, the Smithsonian has been working hard to provide the public with a way to search across the Smithsonian’s diverse digital collections. New
Description: Lee Woodman held many roles at the Smithsonian, including as Senior Advisor to the Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 2011–14; Executive Producer, Smithsonian Entertainment, Smithsonian Business Ventures, 1996–2000; and Manager of Multimedia, 1984–96. #Groundbreaker
Description: Linda Edquist, Conservator and Head of Preservation, National Postal Museum, 1993–2018, managed conservation projects, staff, and exhibitions at the museum. Edquist first arrived at the Smithsonian as a Conservation Technician at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 1990–92. #Groundbreaker
Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: Anthropologist Dr. Priscilla Copeland Reining, social anthropologist and Africanist, coordinated the Smithsonian's Urgent Anthropology Program, specialized in desertification, population, fertility, and HIV/AIDS, and pioneered the use of satellite imagery in conjunction with ethnographic data. #Groundbreaker
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