Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of Engineering Design and Construction"
Staff Check-In: Befriending Kittens, Carving Ducks, and Perfecting the Art of the Biscuit
- Date: July 14, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Nearly four months into Smithsonian’s extended telework period, we thought it would be fun to share which skills and hobbies have been getting us through this overwhelming time.
Link Love: 5/25/2018
- Date: May 25, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has a new show on the history of silhouettes, a pre-photography method for capturing an individual's likeness. [via Artsy]"How To File Catalogs" and more Office 101. [via Smithsonian Libraries]What do archives look like before they come to clean boxes and folder arrangement? Yikes. [via Cambridge University Library Special
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The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian
- Date: June 7, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian
Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life
- Date: May 28, 2013
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.
Facing our Fears
- Date: October 30, 2018
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.
Spotlight: Henry Joseph Horan, Superintendent of Buildings
- Date: July 29, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: A closer look at staff member Henry Horan (1838-1896), who held several positions at the Smithsonian, including janitor, watchman, and superintendent of buildings, during his long career at the Institution.
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Link Love: 4/8/2011
- Date: April 8, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently
The History of Email at the Smithsonian
- Date: July 21, 2015
- Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email
Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley
- Date: November 28, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the
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Save Our African American Treasures
- Date: March 29, 2011
- Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption
Finding the Digital Treasures
- Date: November 1, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Highlighting some of the Archives favorite digital objects in its collections.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: July 9, 2019
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.