Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Description: Have you ever wondered how our staff preserves the oversize collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives? Here is an intern’s perspective on preserving the personal collection of Alexander Dallas Bache.
Description: The Smithsonian’s 2012 Archives Fair will feature a film festival this year where films fitting the theme “Hidden Treasures” will make their debut.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="A project participant uses calipers to measure a tree on Barro Colorado Island during Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) census, similar to the one in Malaysia, on the biological diversity of tropical rainforests, 1985?, by Carl Hansen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box
Description: The Smithsonian African American Association was formed in 1989 and was an assembly of the Institution's employees who have organized to project a united voice, to have an impact upon pan-institutional policies that affect African Americans, and to convey these concerns to the Smithsonian Administration.