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Link Love: 12/27/2019
- Date: December 27, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Snuggle up and pass the popcorn because the Smithsonian American Art Museum and New-York Historical Society teamed up for a #MuseumHolidayMovies marathon. [via SAAM]Five climate experts are giving us hope. [via Earth Optimism][edan-image:id=siris_arc_386150,size=450,center]The New York Times reviews the decade through photographs. [via New York Times]The National Museum of
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Remembering Robert McCormick Adams, Secretary 1984-1994
- Date: January 29, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10199,size=500,center]Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1984 to 1994. He succeeded S. Dillon Ripley who had overseen a period of remarkable expansion from 1964 to 1984. Dr. Dr. Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1984 to 1994. An
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: 9/23/2016
- Date: September 23, 2016
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s
- Date: August 25, 2010
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How
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Link Love: 4/16/2010
- Date: April 16, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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More Thoughts on the Art of Science
- Date: January 7, 2010
- Description: In the most recent issue of Ezra (Winter 2010, pg. 3), Cornell University’s quarterly magazine, there is a small feature about photographs by graduate student Heather Flores of fruit fly ovaries. These images won the NYSTEM Stem Cell Awareness Day Image Contest. Besides the fact that there is a contest devoted to images that demonstrate the visual beauty of stem cell science,
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See Here: 9/22/2010
- Date: September 22, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Aerial view of the Rhode River and the site of the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (CBCES), now known as the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), in Edgewater, Maryland, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 549 Box 2
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Shireen L. Dodson
- Date: February 13, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Shireen L. Dodson worked as Comptroller for the Smithsonian Institution (1986–1992), Associate Director for Administration and Planning at the National African-American Museum Project (1992–1995), and Associate Director for Administration at the Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (1995–2000). #Groundbreaker
World Watercolor Month at the Smithsonian
- Date: July 22, 2021
- Creator: Tatiana Swann
- Description: We’re taking a look at the various watercolors the Smithsonian Institution has collected both past and present, highlighting the diversity in artists, technique, unique painting effect, and versatility to create anything from insects to cityscapes.
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The Smithsonian’s First Garden
- Date: May 31, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,
Crowned Heads
- Date: September 10, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Royalty visits the Smithsonian Institution