Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for Research"
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Family Affair
- Date: November 9, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), and his wife, Harriet Henry, and their daughters Caroline, Helen and Mary with croquet mallets on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c.
Tips for Online Research at the Archives
- Date: October 6, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Little Things Mean a Lot
- Date: March 10, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="229" caption="Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) was a professor of biology at DePaul University and a world-renowned authority on krill when she began working on research ships off-shore in 1962, when this photograph was taken, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, cc. 90-105
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How Hot Was It At Bull Run?
- Date: July 20, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying
- Date: August 2, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.
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Broadcasting Live from the Sun...
- Date: November 22, 2016
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.
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Broadcasting Live from the Sun...
- Date: November 22, 2016
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.
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Answer me this?
- Date: May 19, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Road trip!
- Date: June 29, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: It was July 1880 in Washington, DC and Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Baird, had fled the city with his family for cool ocean breezes and to study the fishing grounds off the New England coast at Woods Hole on Cape Cod. For those left behind minding the Smithsonian Castle, it was probably hot, humid, and hellish in town and they were in need of relief. Luckily, the proprietors
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Are You Arty or Hearty?
- Date: May 19, 2011
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.
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A very jolly day...
- Date: December 23, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah, c. 1907, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Records, 1902-1965 (Record Unit 7091), Image ID: SIA2009-0983."][/caption] Alright, I admit it. I often write about the Walcott family and why not?
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Formidable: Women in Science
- Date: March 8, 2009
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first 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. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!