Results for "Smithsonian Learning Lab (Website)"
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Location! Location! Location!
- Date: July 6, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Decoding Taxonomic Mysteries in Secretary Baird’s Correspondence
- Date: May 17, 2016
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: The Archives was recently gifted an 1860 letter from Spencer F. Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian, to George N. Lawrence, fellow naturalist. The donor requested that, along with a digital version, a transcription be provided, which I undertook alongside a simple treatment. The letter was in overall excellent condition: the thin paper exhibited only a pair of small
Check out the Archives' New Forums
- Date: September 22, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
A Monster Mash of Smithsonian History
- Date: October 31, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: We got on Photoshop and we did the monster mash. It was definitely a graveyard smash. Enjoy your safe yet spooky Halloween!
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Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist
- Date: February 27, 2020
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
- Date: November 24, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Teachers’ Night 2012
- Date: October 9, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives helps celebrate education at Teachers’ Night 2012.
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Hide and Seek
- Date: December 9, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete
How I Spent My Summer: Interning as a Virtual Web Archivist
- Date: August 4, 2022
- Description: Virtually join along with me on my web and social media archiving adventure using web archiving services, such as Archive-It.
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This Week: Smithsonian Archives Fair and “Ask the Smithsonian” Q&A
- Date: October 10, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Celebrating the Smithsonian Latino Center
- Date: September 17, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Documenting the history, programs, and activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center through the capture of their websites and their other online sites.
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100 Years of the Natural History Building
- Date: June 17, 2010
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="U.S. National Museum, May 3, 1917, seen from the National Mall, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 79, Folder: 10, Neg. SIA2009-2203."][/caption] As part of my work as the historian for the history of the Smithsonian, I’ve been working for the past year on