Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Arts and Humanities"
- Blog Post
Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse
- Date: June 25, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.
Portrait of Joseph Henry (1797-1878)
- Date: 1865
- Creator: Brady's National Photographic Portrait Galleries
Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901
- Date: 1901
- Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009517, Richard E. Blackwelder Oral History Interview, 1978
- Date: 1978
- Creator: Blackwelder, Richard E., interviewee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 99-026, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Education Department, Records, 1989-1998
- Date: 1989 1989-1998
- Creator: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Education Department
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Era L. Marshall
- Date: April 28, 2021
- 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.
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1966-
- Date: 1966 1966-
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Office of International Relations
The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian
- Date: January 9, 2018
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 99-106, National Portrait Gallery (U.S.) Office of Exhibitions, Exhibition Records, 1974-1976
- Date: 1974 1974-1976
- Creator: National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution). Office of Exhibitions
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Some Web Developer Career Advice
- Date: June 7, 2018
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and be sure to let us know who you would like to hear from next!
- Authority Record/EAC
Agency history, 1916-1917, 1919-1933
- Date: 1916 1916-1933 1916-1917, 1919-1933
- Creator: Smithsonian Local Notes
Henry Apartments, East Wing, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle - Dining Room
- Date: 1862 July 31, 1862
- Creator: Peale, Titian Ramsay 1799-1885
