Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Mediterranean Marine Sorting Center"
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: October 9, 2014
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Link Love: 1/24/2020
- Date: January 24, 2020
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science
- Date: June 12, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a
New Chandra X-Ray Images on the Flickr Commons
- Date: October 27, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 12/28/2012
- Date: December 28, 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.
Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!
- Date: January 30, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping
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Someone to Watch Over Me . . .
- Date: June 25, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="222" caption="In the City Where Nobody Cares, by unidentified photographer, 1910, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] A couple of years ago, as soon as Google’s Street View application was introduced, it generated worldwide controversy. Ground-level photographic images, shot from cameras
Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 2, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.
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Fame ... By Any Other Name
- Date: March 20, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.
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A New Look at Home Movies
- Date: May 31, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social
An Undersea Invertebrates Update: Treatment Progress on Bartsch’s Nudibranchs Field Book
- Date: May 18, 2017
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Treatment continues on Paul Bartsch’s field book documenting nudibranchs—see our progress!
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Wish You Were Here?
- Date: December 1, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they