Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research"
Link Love: 4/13/2018
- Date: April 13, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now
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Adventures in the Morgue
- Date: March 16, 2009
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the second in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. In a 1930s movie about hotshot newspaper reporters, you might hear the star (Jimmy Cagney, probably) yell
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol O’Donnell
- Date: November 4, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- 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.
Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo
- Date: May 27, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A number of animals who used to call the National Zoological Park home are no longer there.
A Legend in Termite Field Biology
- Date: March 2, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.
Writing At Cross Purposes
- Date: June 12, 2012
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Another discovery in the Smithsonian Institution Archives— a letter that takes illegibility to new heights.
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Old Photos, New Histories
- Date: May 20, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are
Where Are Archives Going? Impressions from SAA 2012
- Date: August 30, 2012
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Impressions from the Society of American Archivists 2012 Annual Meeting on how archives are transforming themselves in the 21st century.
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Let’s Play the Name Game: Identifying Women Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: April 12, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: The Flickr Commons community helps the Archives identify images of Women in Science from our Science Service collections.
Link Love: 1/11/2013
- Date: January 11, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 8/31/2012
- Date: August 31, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Reflections on a Reference Request: Father’s Day Edition
- Date: June 17, 2021
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: Learn how our archive of institutional memory can also be a place for family stories.