Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities"
How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian
- Date: February 2, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;
Diary, European trip, 1914 (1 of 2)
- Date: 1914 19140612 19140722
- Creator: Shimek, Bohumil, 1861-1937
The Cockroach Kitchen
- Date: October 29, 2013
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 7/30/2010
- Date: July 30, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Portrait of a City Marshal by Barr & Wright, 1870-1880, National Museum of American History, Catalog number 77.43.1678."][/caption] Help the Smithsonian ID a Houston city marshal from the 1870s in the picture on the right. The extremely flammable nitrocellulose film used before 1951 led to an estimated 80 percent of silent
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009631, Smithsonian Branding Campaign Oral History Interviews, 2012
- Date: 2012
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
The Substitute Mother
- Date: January 20, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
- Finding Aid
SIA RU007440, American Ornithologists' Union, Records, 1871-1994, with related records from 1845
- Date: 1845 1845-1994 1871-1994, with related records from 1845
- Creator: American Ornithologists' Union
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- SI History Chronology
Oris Sanjur Named Acting Director of STRI
- Date: July 1, 2020
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000591, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, circa 1971-1991
- Date: 1971 1971-1991 circa 1971-1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century
- Date: October 24, 2019
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 2002-
- Date: 2002
- Creator: Smithsonian Facilities Office of Facilities Management and Reliability