Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. Smithsonian Global Sound. "
Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Thursday, October 22
- Date: October 15, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: In honor of Archives Month, it’s time for the Smithsonian’s annual Facebook Q&A where the public can ask questions about preserving and organizing their own collections!
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1955-
- Date: 1955 1955-
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Exhibits
Link Love: 7/18/2014
- Date: July 18, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 2, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall
- Date: December 17, 2020
- Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 17-110, National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.), Website Records, 2012-2017
- Date: 2012 2012-2017
- Creator: National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU009619, History of Smithsonian Folklife Oral History Interviews, 2005-2009
- Date: 2007 2007-2009 2005-2009
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Historic Pictures of the Smithsonian
- Date: October 3, 2017
- Description: Follow the Smithsonian's growth through photographs from its founding to the world's largest museum complex today.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Camille Giraud Akeju
- Date: June 17, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Camille Giraud Akeju was the Director of the Anacostia Community Museum from 2005 to 2016. Under her leadership, the Museum broadened its mission and scope to address the impact of historical and current events on urban communities, both locally and nationally.Before the Smithsonian, Akeju served as the president of the Harlem School of the Arts beginning in 1999. During her
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 14-095, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2013
- Date: 2013
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
Smithsonian Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections
- Date: April 11, 2017
- Description: BackgroundThe Smithsonian Institution Archives, partnering with seven Smithsonian units, conducted a comprehensive survey of audiovisual collections consisting of analog film, audio, and video held across the Institution. Proposed by the Audiovisual Archivists Interest Lunch (AVAIL) group and funded by the Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF), this project will
MayDay as Earth Day
- Date: April 30, 2020
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner