Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Center for Asian Art"

 
Showing results 421 - 432 of 1723 for Smithsonian Institution. Center for Asian Art
  1. Lerner puts his hands over Rosenberg’s as the two hold a knife and cut into a cake with a Christmas tree on its top. They are both smiling at the camera.

    Dorothy Rosenberg: "A Low-keyed Dynamo"

    • Date: September 16, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As an administrative officer to two Assistant Secretaries and as executive assistant to Secretary Ripley, Dorothy Rosenberg was the backbone behind the Smithsonian’s top offices between 1959 and 1980.

  2.  
  3. Blog Post

    The Smithsonian and the Solar Eclipse

    • Date: August 8, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Smithsonian has a history of eclipse-ready public programming! How the Smithsonian has worked with the public in 1972, and today, to help visitors view eclipses safely.

  4.  
  5. An x-ray of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) in the guise of a Buddha reveals three wood support screws. F1957.25. Courtesy of the Freer and Sackler Galleries.

    Link Love: 10/25/2013

    • Date: October 25, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

  6.  
  7. Mieri stands in front of an exhibit case with a panel, titled

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Magdalena Mieri

    • Date: November 3, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

  8.  
  9. Blog Post

    Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

    • Date: June 12, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

  10.  
  11. Blog Post

    Music in the Castle 1854–1862

    • Date: February 12, 2019
    • Description: As part of the Smithsonian Year of Music 2019, the Smithsonian Castle Collection curator chronicles music in the Castle during its early years.

  12.  
  13. Collection of black and white negative contact sheet of images from the celebration of the	Hillwood donation.

    Toasting to the Museum that Never Was

    • Date: January 14, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: A brief look at the Smithsonian’s almost acquisition of Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate

  14.  
  15. Obsolete storage media.

    One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings

    • Date: May 28, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.

  16.  
  17. Blog Post

    African American Women Educators at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2016
    • Description: The contributions of African American women educators Tracy Carpenter, Louise Hutchinson, and Amina Dickerson to the Smithsonian.

  18.  
  19. Blog Post

    In Living Color

    • Date: January 12, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and

  20.  
  21. Blog Post

    Secretary and Outdoorsman: Alexander Wetmore

    • Date: June 21, 2018
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12035,size=350,center]June is National Camping Month, and to celebrate we are recognizing one of the Smithsonian’s original outdoorsmen: Alexander Wetmore. The Smithsonian’s sixth Secretary thrived outside. Annually for 20 years Wetmore would make the trip south to Panama, to the same spot, Isla Iguana. There he would conduct his observations, record

  22.  
  23. Blog Post

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Graskowiak

    • Date: December 23, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

  24.  
Showing results 421 - 432 of 1723 for Smithsonian Institution. Center for Asian Art

Pages