Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Museum Reference Center"
Women in Science Wednesday: Nicole Little
- Date: February 10, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
Link Love: 5/26/2017
- Date: May 26, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe
Career advice from our Preservation Coordinator
- Date: May 1, 2018
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a
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Pickering’s Women?
- Date: May 8, 2009
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 20-039, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2018
- Date: 2018
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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“Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971
- Date: August 21, 2018
- Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of
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In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)
- Date: December 17, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)
- Historic Pictures
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama was founded in 1923 as the Barro Colorado Island Laboratory to study tropical biology. In 1946, it was placed under Smithsonian aegis as the Canal Zone Biological Area. Although still based in Panama, today its researchers study biodiversity and human culture throughout the tropics. History of the Smithsonian Tropical
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Beryl Simpson
- Date: May 30, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Phylogeneticist Dr. Beryl Simpson, formerly curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, received the 2010 José Cuatrecasas Medal for Excellence in Tropical Botany for her contributions to the field and 3 decades of mentoring future botanists. #Groundbreaker
Design + Archives = National Museum of History and Technology
- Date: May 29, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A peek at an architectural model of the National Museum of American History from the Archives collections.
Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian
- Date: September 13, 2012
- Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.
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James Smithson, c. 1765–1829
- Date: June 27, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: On June 27, 1829 James Smithson passed away in Genoa, Italy. His remains were later to rest in the Smithsonian Institution Building.