Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Museum Reference Center"
Sneak Peek 10/23/2017
- Date: October 23, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Exterior of the Air and Space Building located in the South Yard of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, 76-3339.
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New Feature! Sneak Peek
- Date: May 18, 2011
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.
Sneak Peek 11/5/2018
- Date: November 5, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) staff member with chameleon specimens at Navy Yard laboratory, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-137.
Vintage Shutterbugs
- Date: May 26, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Did you know that May is National Photography Month? Declared by Congress as a month-long event in 1987, National Photography Month celebrates all aspects of photography. We invite you to see what our photographers were up to a century before this declaration in this behind- the-scenes slideshow of the photographic laboratory spaces, set-ups, and equipment of the United States
Sneak Peek 2/25/2019
- Date: February 25, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Fish specimens in jars at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC), June 6, 1979, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-7303-16A.
True Colors
- Date: November 21, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Contrasting black and white with color photography by Smithsonian Institution photographers.
Open Access: Put a Bird On It
- Date: February 24, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!
Sneak Peek 2/22/2016
- Date: February 22, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Roy S. Clarke, Associate Curator in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the National Museum of Natural History, examines samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, OPA-1447-09A.
Sneak Peek 8/29/2016
- Date: August 29, 2016
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Demolition of the Medical Museum of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, also known as the Army Medical Museum, at the site of the future Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC, with the U.S. Capitol visible, OPA-1307-11.
- Blog Post
What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?
- Date: April 7, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and
Sneak Peek 2/11/2019
- Date: February 11, 2019
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Robert E. Sheldon aka “The Band Man,” museum specialist in the Division of Musical Instruments at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as National Museum of American History, works on a composition for the french horn, 79-5900-32.
Sneak Peek 3/30/2020
- Date: March 30, 2020
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, SIA_000095_B67_F16_004.