Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage"
You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist
- Date: November 10, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting
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SIA Acc. 16-109, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Publications and Information, Publication Files, 1932, 1946, 1957-1989
- Date: 1957 1957-1989 1932, 1946, 1957-1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Publications and Information
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU009551, Soviet Space Medicine Videohistory Collection, 1989
- Date: 1989
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Gallery
Smithsonian Institution Building
- Date: September 16, 2013
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, was designed by architect James Renwick, Jr. Construction began in 1847 and was finished in 1855. The statue in front of the Castle, which is visible in many of these postcards, is of Joseph Henry, who was the first Secretary of the Smithsonian. The postcards in this gallery provide exterior views of the Castle.
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SIA Acc. 11-065, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Office of Community Services, Exhibition Records, 1999-2004
- Date: 1999 1999-2004
- Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. Office of Community Services
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Gallery
National Zoo
- Date: September 19, 2013
- Description: The National Zoological Park was conceived by William Temple Hornaday and established by an act of Congress in 1889. The Smithsonian’s collection of living animals was originally intended to aid taxidermists’ studies, but Smithsonian Secretaries Spencer F. Baird and Samuel P. Langley helped expand the small menagerie’s purpose. Today it houses over 2,000 animals of around 400
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SIA Acc. 01-044, National Zoological Park (U.S.) Office of the Director, National Zoological Park Offices, Officials and Programs Files, 1958-1999
- Date: 1958 1958-1999
- Creator: National Zoological Park. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU009552, Robotics Videohistory Collection, 1989-1990
- Date: 1989 1989-1990
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU009520, Fred L. Whipple Oral History Interviews, 1976
- Date: 1976
- Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004, interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Webpage
James Thomas Gant
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8206,size=350,right]Born around 1815, James Thomas Gant was one of twelve children born to free parents on a plantation a few miles northeast of the Washington DC-line.1 As a free black man who lived through nearly the entire nineteenth century, he would see the Civil War, the destruction of slavery, the rise and fall of an all-too-brief period of
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SIA RU000320, National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) Office of the Director, Special Services Records, 1964-1969
- Date: 1964 1964-1969
- Creator: National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of the Director
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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SIA RU007000, Smithson, James 1765-1829, James Smithson Collection, 1796-1951, circa 1974, 1981-1983
- Date: 1796 1796-1983 1796-1951, circa 1974, 1981-1983
- Creator: Smithson, James, 1765-1829
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives