Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.
Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.
Description: Attend today’s virtual historic film screening in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment! [via UCLA Film & Television Archive] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_397460,size=350,center]Got an itch to meet the Smithsonian’s resident mosquito expert? [via Smithsonian Voices]The New York Public Library podcast explores the life’s work and
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.
Description: Starting last fall, stories started popping up in the British media and online about photographers who’d been stopped by officials empowered to question and search them if they seemed suspicious or might have some links to terrorism.
Description: I couldn’t resist this collection of beautiful butterfly and creepy crawly engravings from BibliOdyssey this week. The Smithsonian has created a new Facebook page in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, which we’ll regularly be contributing to. Hop on over and like the page! Apparently, it was not only illegal, but criminal for women to vote! Photos uncovered by
Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific
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