Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Libraries. Development Committee"
&072; is for Hamburger
- Date: May 28, 2020
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: On National Hamburger Day, let's take a moment to relish the technological hamburger.
Miscellaneous Adventures: Fosberg
- Date: November 17, 2016
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into Raymond Fosberg’s research on the flora of Sri Lanka.
Link Love: 4/25/2014
- Date: April 25, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: With the running of the Boston Marathon this past week, be sure to check out Northeastern University's, "Our Marathon," a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing. [via Ricc Ferrante, SIA]In the early days of my career as an archivist, I had the privilege of cataloging the papers of Grace Nicholson, a
Everything you wanted to know about digitizing your photo album, but were afraid to ask!
- Date: December 19, 2013
- Creator: Kirsten Tyree
- Description: Welcome to Throwback Thursday! This holiday season, I hope to inspire you to take a trip down memory lane to the land of erstwhile and bygone days of the family photo album. What better time to pull these one of a kind treasures off the shelves than during the family festivities! Recently over the Thanksgiving holiday, I rediscovered my own family’s quasi-prehistoric,
The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall
- Date: December 11, 2018
- Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.
Forging a Legal Path: Marie Malaro
- Date: September 18, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.
And They Called it Puppy Love
- Date: August 25, 2020
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Pupper, doggy, hound, bowwow, beastie, pooch. No matter what we call dogs, they have always been our best friends. In honor of writing the third National Dog Day post, let’s take a look at the pooches from the Archives' staff (both past and present). Some of these doggos are home helping Archives' staff while we continue working remotely. Can we get an all around "Goooooood
Everything But Anteaters
- Date: June 3, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The National Zoo Park Restaurant’s Anteaters Association attracted off-season diners with its exotic game lunches.
#AskAnArchivist 2019: The Year of the GIF
- Date: October 3, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: You asked. We answered. On October 2, 2019, five Archive staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.
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Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
“Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator
- Date: March 10, 2016
- Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.
A Rabel with a Cause: Gabriele Rabel, biologist, philosopher, author, and contributor to Science Service
- Date: March 31, 2015
- Description: A brief biographical sketch of Dr. Gabriele Rabel, Austrian born phyisist, biologist, philosopher, author, and stringer for Science Service in the 1930’s.