Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research"
Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927
- Date: February 2, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.
Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!
- Date: July 28, 2020
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.
The Archives Staff Kept Austin Weird at SAA 2019
- Date: August 20, 2019
- Description: This summer, members of the Archives staff packed their bags and headed to the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and Society of American Archivists (SAA). When they returned, they refected om the most useful sessions and what topics they're looking for in the future.
Skating Smithsonian
- Date: February 6, 2014
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: You don’t have to go to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to learn about ice dancing. Check out the Smithsonian ice dancers who used the sport as a great way to unwind and stay warm in the winter.
Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris
- Date: August 13, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain during the 1871–73 Polaris Expedition.
Congratulations National Air and Space Museum! 40 Years of Celebrations
- Date: June 30, 2016
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NASM building with a look back at several of the celebrations that took place there.
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click! in the Classroom
- Date: March 18, 2010
- Description: When most people think of Lincoln, Nebraska, the images they probably conjure up are of Husker football fans dressed in red, and the endless flat expanse of Interstate 80 as it stretches westward toward the Rocky Mountains. What most people don’t know is that Nebraska has become the fifth largest refugee resettlement site per capita, compared with states of similar
Wait. Did That Really Happen? Murder at the Museum
- Date: January 16, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: On January 16, 1907, a man carrying packages asked a carpenter for directions to a former colleague's office in the U.S. National Museum. Minutes later, that man pulled a rifle out of one of the packages and murdered an illustrator working for the Smithsonian.
Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator
- Date: March 22, 2011
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of
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50 Years of Folklife
- Date: June 29, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.
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The Quest for Walcott's Quarry
- Date: September 15, 2009
- Creator: Sarah Stauderman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2239" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="881. View of the cliff of Mount Burgess from the west slope of Mount Field, three (3) miles north of Field on the Canadian Pacific Railway (British Columbia, Canada). By C.D. Walcott, 1910. 4 x 5" kodak film. Digital image taken directly from nitrate negative.
Design + Archives: Star Search
- Date: January 26, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.