Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research"
Link Love: 5/3/2019
- Date: May 3, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website
- Date: October 13, 2020
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
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See Here: 5/6/2010
- Date: May 6, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Group photograph of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory employees, including Florence Meier Chase, fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928-1944) Charles Greeley Abbot (second from the left), M. Agnes Neill, Earl S. Johnston, Robert Weintraub, Anne Lucka, William Hoover, Edward D. McAlister, and unidentified
Where in the World Is That Field Book?
- Date: July 28, 2016
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: Field books are now on our website. Not only that, but they are becoming full text searchable.
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See Here: 4/12/2011
- Date: April 12, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="367" caption="A diorama of Andrew Ellicott and his assistant Benjamin Banneker taking a break from surveying the boundaries of Washington, D.C., in "Laying out the Nation's Capital" in the Hall of Physical Sciences, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
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See Here: 4/12/2010
- Date: April 12, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="National Portrait Gallery (NPG) curator of photographs, Will Stapp, and his assistant, Ann Shumard, with the last photograph taken of Abraham Lincoln, 1982, Dane A. Penland, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder June 1982, Negative Number: 82-4838-22A."][/caption]
Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem
- Date: April 12, 2018
- Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these
Happy Birthday, Smithsonian Magazine!
- Date: April 21, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look back at the first issue of Smithsonian Magazine for its 45th anniversary.
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See Here: 7/14/2010
- Date: July 14, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Secretary Leonard Carmichael at the National Zoological Park with a baby gorilla, Leonard (left), and chimpanzee (right), 1961, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 5 Folder 9, Negative Number: 76-17992."][/caption]
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See Here: 11/22/2010
- Date: November 22, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Administrative offices of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Ancon Building, Panama City, This tropical laboratory, called the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), and later renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1946, photo taken December 1965, by
Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell
- Date: April 7, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.
- Blog Post
Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers
- Date: March 26, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.