Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Infant Task Force"
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Drs. Joanne Hyppolite and Deborah Mack
- Date: December 20, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Drs. Joanne Hyppolite and Deborah Mack had the near impossible task of distilling 400 years of African American style, food, craftsmanship, and more into the inaugural "Cultural Expressions" exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. #Groundbreaker (s)
Wish you (or your image) were here
- Date: August 7, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers
- Date: April 25, 2019
- Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.
Link Love: 9/2/2016
- Date: September 2, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the
How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?
- Date: January 25, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of
Take This Job & Shoot It!
- Date: September 10, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 12/1/2017
- Date: December 1, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Surreal, doctored historic images by Nicolas Monterrat. [via Colossal]Europeana announced the winners of the 2017 Gif It Up competition! [via Europeana blog]Chinese researchers are starting the daunting task of digitizing more than 200,000 volumes of Mongolian books and documents, including a rare Mongolian version of the Tibetan Buddhist classic Kangyur from 1720. [via
A Champion for Libraries and Archives: Ching-hsien Wang
- Date: May 26, 2022
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In their efforts to document the history of computing at the Smithsonian, volunteers are interviewing former staff to preserve their stories and experiences. Ching-hsien Wang was a force that helped libraries and archives make their collections accessible online and here are some early excerpts from our interview with her.
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The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair
- Date: October 3, 2017
- Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s
Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor
- Date: July 18, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.
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Save the Silver!
- Date: September 4, 2012
- Description: During the Civil War, Solomon G. Brown protected valuables from the approaching Confederate Army.
Link Love: 3/4/16
- Date: March 4, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Images from the Rauschenberg Foundation are now available for educational use. [via NY Times] "How to Preserve Your Family Photos, Movies, and Memories Like a Smithsonian Archivist," with our own, Ricc Ferrante. [via Fatherly]The Bob Dylan Archive which includes sketches, notes, lyrics and chord progressions for unrecorded songs, has found its home at the University of Tulsa.