Results for "Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service"
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Reflections on Women's History Month
- Date: May 7, 2009
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: Throughout March, archivists from the Smithsonian Institution Archives archivists blogged about the women scientists in the Science Service Records (1902-1965). Here is a reflection on their experience.
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Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935
- Date: July 24, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.
Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education
- Date: March 6, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sharon F. Patton
- Date: September 25, 2019
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Dr. Sharon F. Patton, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2003-2008, oversaw the museum’s 9,000 African art objects and welcomed the distinguished Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Under her leadership, the museum opened its first traveling exhibition and established a visiting artists program. #Groundbreaker
Exhibitions and Weather Conditions at an Exposition
- Date: May 29, 2012
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution’s involvement in the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California.
Introducing the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
- Date: December 8, 2020
- Description: We've got big news! The Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian Institution Archives have merged to become Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.
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Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher
- Date: August 23, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who
Calling All First Ladies
- Date: August 27, 2013
- Description: A closer look at the First Lady’s social obligation to exchange calling cards in the early 19th century.
Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart
- Date: January 3, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.
A Rabel with a Cause: Gabriele Rabel, biologist, philosopher, author, and contributor to Science Service
- Date: March 31, 2015
- Description: A brief biographical sketch of Dr. Gabriele Rabel, Austrian born phyisist, biologist, philosopher, author, and stringer for Science Service in the 1930’s.
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Science Service, Up Close: The “Porcupine” Letters
- Date: October 17, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A 1936 exchange of letters about the prickly porcupine preserves both a contemporary scientific debate and the wit and wisdom of a young Utah girl with a beloved pet.
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The Smithsonian's First Photographer
- Date: May 14, 2009
- Description: Vernacular photography is the latest type of photography to be discovered by museums. Postcards, collected by Walker Evans (but still, postcards), have just been exhibited by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a tintype exhibition just closed at the International Center of Photography in New York, another exhibit of snapshots was seen at the National Gallery of Art.