Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of Museum Programs. Conservation Information Program"
Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar
- Date: March 5, 2019
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.
You’ve Still Got Mail
- Date: April 19, 2011
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
“Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth
- Date: May 7, 2020
- Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world. One of Thone’s correspondents was a
Did the Curator Really Do It? Popular Culture at the Smithsonian
- Date: August 1, 2013
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: June 10, 2014
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Link Love: 9/23/2011
- Date: September 23, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 9/30/2011
- Date: September 30, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers
- Date: July 28, 2011
- Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of
Design + Archives: Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: February 21, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Celebrating 50 years in 2017, the Anacostia Community Museum opened on September 15, 1967.
American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future
- Date: October 6, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!
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African American Women Educators at the Smithsonian
- Date: February 2, 2016
- Description: The contributions of African American women educators Tracy Carpenter, Louise Hutchinson, and Amina Dickerson to the Smithsonian.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cathy L. Helm
- Date: July 22, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.