Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design Branch"
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2022
- Date: April 28, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
Link Love: 4/6/2012
- Date: April 6, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Link Love: 10/10/2014
- Date: October 10, 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.
Design + Archives: One Smithsonian
- Date: February 1, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A discussion of the 1998 Smithsonian Visual Identity Program in the context of the Smithsonian's 2017 strategic plan.
Link Love: 2/12/2016
- Date: February 12, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: You can now download hi-res images of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, and letters. [via Open Culture and Vincent Van Gogh Museum]Speaking of Van Gogh, the Art Institute of Chicago has recreated the bedroom in his famous painting and it is now for rent on Air BnB. [via Colossal]More enjoyable art browsing brought to you by technology! Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of
Link Love: 4/13/2018
- Date: April 13, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now
Link Love: 1/13/2017
- Date: January 13, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A collections move of epic proportions; the history of New York City is getting a new home. [via NY Times]The Smithsonian American Art Museum offers tours for blind and visually impaired visitors to experience art. [via NPR]The Internet Archive has launched an online news archive for PEOTUS Donald Trump. [via Internet Archive]The Digital Public Library of America launched an
Link Love: 12/19/2014
- Date: December 19, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of
Link Love: 9/22/2017
- Date: September 22, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for
Link Love: 10/26/2012
- Date: October 26, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 3/16/2012
- Date: March 16, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 9/13/2013
- Date: September 13, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.