Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Grand Challenges Consortia"

 
Showing results 30685 - 30696 of 31769 for Smithsonian Institution. Grand Challenges Consortia
  1. Display of a wall of orchids inside the Hirshhorn Museum.

    Orchids and Oral History

    • Date: April 16, 2020
    • Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.

  2.  
  3. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 96-055, Smithsonian Institution Office of Interdisciplinary Studies, Symposia and Seminars Records, 1987-1993

    • Date: 1987 1987-1993
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Interdisciplinary Studies
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

  4.  
  5. Field Book

    Volume 5, “Lake Rudolf”, November 7, 1909 to May 28, 1910

    • Date: 1909-1910 19091107 19100528

  6.  
  7. Truth and Beauty

    • Date: March 27, 2012
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Maud Slye, was a pathologist and tireless cancer researcher whose contributions to the role of genetics and cancer were game changing.

  8.  
  9. The Journey to Recovery: A Tale of Earthquake Damage and Repair in Haiti

    • Date: February 23, 2012
    • Description: The story of the damage context and advanced treatment of a Stivenson Magloire painting broken into fragments by the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

  10.  
  11. Portrait of Lonnie G. Bunch, undated. Accession 19-200: Lonnie G. Bunch Papers, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2020-005336.

    Bunch of Boxes

    • Date: February 3, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In 2016 Lonnie G. Bunch donated his personal papers to the Smithsonian Institution Archives. The collection covers a wide variety of topics and spans the breath of Bunch's career from being an Education Specialist at the National Air and Space Museum to being Founding Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

  12.  
  13. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

    Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

    • Date: August 25, 2015
    • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

  14.  
  15. Field Book

    Field Notes, POBSP, Jackson, Jillson, Kepler, volume 59

    • Date: 1964-1965 19640203 19650301
    • Creator: Kepler, Cameron B.

  16.  
  17. Blog Post

    It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

    • Date: September 15, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

  18.  
  19. Document

    Smithsonian History

    •  
    • Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

      Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

      • Date: January 7, 2020
      • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

    •  
    • Blog Post

      Conserving Harper’s Three-for-One Field Book

      • Date: August 24, 2017
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Though a large part of our collections are flat—that is, they are unbound materials as opposed to bound, three-dimensional objects—a significant group of our holdings do live in bindings and book structures (some of my previous blog contributions have dealt with books, but none with as great a degree of intervention). Treating a field book became more complicated—and more

    •  
    Showing results 30685 - 30696 of 31769 for Smithsonian Institution. Grand Challenges Consortia

    Pages