Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of Policy and Analysis"
Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945
- Date: August 6, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.
Science Service: Up Close
- Date: May 19, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a
Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists
- Date: August 27, 2015
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”
- Date: June 13, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.
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Par for the Course
- Date: July 18, 2011
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,
Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far
- Date: August 15, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.
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Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford
- Date: March 11, 2014
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.
Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology
- Date: March 14, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.
Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies
- Date: March 30, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring
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Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens
- Date: March 8, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.
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Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.