Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Museum Reference Center"
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Anacostia Neighborhood Museum Opens to Serve Local Community | Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. T89037, Center for Short-lived Phenomena (Cambridge, Mass.), Miscellaneous Records, and Publications, 1968-1975
- Date: 1968 1968-1975
- Creator: Center for Short-lived Phenomena (Cambridge, Mass.)
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Aug 13 Museum of African Art Becomes Bureau of SI | Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian's 131st Birthday Party
- Date: 1977 August 10, 1977
- Creator: Hofmeister, Richard K
Gregory Breit (1899-1951) (left), Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) (center), and George Gamow (1904-1968) (right)
- Date: 1939 January 1939
- Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977
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Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum opened on September 15, 1967, in the historic Carver Theater in Anacostia, Washington, DC, as a “store-front museum” to reach underserved communities. In 1987, the museum relocated to a new building at 1901 Fort Place SE, Washington, DC. In 2006, it was renamed the Anacostia Community Museum. History of the Anacostia Community MuseumView
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Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017
- Date: July 6, 2017
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into
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Smithsonian Gardens
- Date: September 5, 2018
- Description: Smithsonian Gardens was established in 1972 as the Horticultural Services Division of the Office of Plant Services to provide appropriate landscaping outside of Smithsonian museums and decorative greenery inside Smithsonian buildings. Today, Smithsonian Gardens is an accredited museum that provides living classrooms and urban sanctuaries for Smithsonian visitors.History of
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The Anniversary of the National Museum of African Art: A Gift in August
- Date: August 13, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: On August 13, 2012 the National Museum of African Art, founded by Warren M. Robbins, became a part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Other Frequently Used Smithsonian Institution Records
- Date: April 20, 2011
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8947,size=180,right]Record Unit 60, Meteorological Project, Records, 1849–1875 Most of these records are requests for weather data, or requests from researchers interested in the correspondence of an observer who worked on Secretary Joseph Henry’s Smithsonian Meteorological Project.Record Unit 70, Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and
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SIA Acc. 13-082, Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Curatorial Records, 1957-2010
- Date: 1957 1957-2010
- Creator: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Spencer F. Baird Becomes Head of US National Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives
