Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Museum Reference Center"
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2022
- Date: January 12, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
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Army Seizes Corcoran Gallery for Civil War Use | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Releases Eight Golden Lion Tamarins into Wild | Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Research Paper Read at Royal Society of London | Smithsonian Institution Arch
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Biographical Information
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: Biographical information can be found throughout the Archives’ holdings. These collections are especially rich in material documenting Smithsonian staff and scientific collaborators. Accession 05-123, Smithsonian Institution, Personnel Records, 1892–1952 This accession consists of early personnel records. Notable staff include: C.G. (Charles Greeley) Abbot, Carl Whiting
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Joseph Henry's Life
- Date: March 20, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Smithsonian Memories
- Date: September 9, 2021
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: Learn a little more about a collection that both challenges and celebrates the history of the Smithsonian.
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Wipe That Grin Off Your Face!
- Date: June 2, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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See Here: 12/31/2009
- Date: December 31, 2009
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Nancy Sage, museum registrar, using a periscope to view a gallery in a scale model of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden building, 1973, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 1 Folder March 1973,
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See Here: 2/9/2011
- Date: February 9, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A group of East African buffalo, specimens from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt Expedition (1909-1910), are on display in the Mammal Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, c. 1915, by Unidentified photographer, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,
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See Here: 3/19/2010
- Date: March 19, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="431" caption="Exhibit of Contemporary Hungarian Artists under auspices of the American Federation of Arts and the American-Hungarian Foundation, at the National Gallery, now the Smithsonian American Art Museum, in the Museum of Natural History, April 23-May 31, 1930, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
Field Work and a World War
- Date: July 12, 2012
- Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.