Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Global Volcanism Program"
Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
- Date: June 22, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: The 2021 Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins this weekend. Let’s take a look back at past festivals.
Welcome Secretary Skorton!
- Date: October 20, 2015
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution welcomes it’s thirteenth Secretary, David J. Skorton with an installation ceremony.
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See Here: 7/7/2010
- Date: July 7, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities, 1934, by E. Hardy, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record,
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Torch 03/1975
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1975 Box 1 Folder 3
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Torch 12/1975
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1975 Box 1 Folder 12
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Just what is an archives, anyway?
- Date: October 5, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: This month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, along with many other archives across the Smithsonian and around the nation, will be celebrating American Archives Month. The purpose of this celebration is "to raise awareness about the value of archives and archivists." We write a lot about what an archivist does on this blog, but, for those of you who don't know and are
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Slowly (the photographs) turn…
- Date: April 8, 2010
- Description: Like Lou Costello or Mo of the Three Stooges whenever I hear the name “Niagara Falls” I pause and take a turn. One turn is to, of course, remember the classic comedy routine (when I was growing up it seemed to play on TV all the time) that involves the interactions between a once prosperous and educated bum and an unsuspecting citizen who doesn’t have a clue about the
American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future
- Date: October 6, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!
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The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings
- Date: July 27, 2010
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural
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Torch 09/1974
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1974 Box 1 Folder 9
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Jeannine Smith Clark
- Date: August 24, 2016
- Description: Jeannine Smith Clark began forty seven years of involvement with the Smithsonian working as a volunteer docent at the National Museum of Natural History in 1968. Since then, she has served on the influential Smithsonian Women’s Committee and was appointed to the Board of Regents, where she served from 1983 to 1994. Jeannine Smith Clark worked with the Smithsonian for 47 years
A Twofer
- Date: February 10, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: The Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian took place on February 11, 1927, raising awareness of the activities of the Smithsonian and at the same time served as a venue to raise money.