Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Public Service. Afro-American Programming"
Smithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1849!
- Date: April 14, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022
- Date: November 3, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.
Further Research in the Conservation and Preservation of Letterpress Copybooks
- Date: January 26, 2016
- Description: Postgraduate Fellow Laura Dellapiana presents new research outcomes for stabilization of letterpress copybooks with significant damage.
Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95
- Date: June 4, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.
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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
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022
- Date: July 21, 2022
- Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.
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
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018
- Date: December 27, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Ch-ch-ch-changes, 2015 edition!
- Date: November 5, 2015
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: It is with sadness that I report that Mitch Toda is stepping down as the blog coordinator. Since 2011, Mitch Toda has been the man behind-the-scenes making sure everything runs smoothly. As a staff archivist, he works daily with the records he takes in from Smithsonian museums and offices such as the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Office of
Folklife Festival 2011: Colombia and the Smithsonian
- Date: July 5, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian
- Date: April 28, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals
Goodbye, 2020: Working Through a Different Kind of Year
- Date: December 31, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Despite so many setbacks this year, Archives staff has continued to serve our researchers.