Results for "Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives (Website)"
Viewing the Past, Through Modern Eyes
- Date: July 10, 2012
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: A publication by Li Ju, a Chinese freelance photographer, retraces the steps of the Clark Expedition, and includes modern images of the sites photographed during the Clark Expedition.
Word-processing files need love, too
- Date: December 31, 2015
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.
Wishing you a Trivial New Year!
- Date: January 4, 2018
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our
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Link Love: 7/4/2014
- Date: July 4, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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The Whole World's Watching: Photography & Terrorism
- Date: March 16, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Privacy And Control, by Michael Pickard, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] It’s a sign of the times that we’re being watched often and everywhere. Surveillance, a word that once summoned up all things intrusive and sneaky, is part of everyday lexicon and experience.
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"To Have and to Hold”: Parsing the Legal Framework of the Hungerford Deed
- Date: May 12, 2020
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Now that we know more about the Hungerford Deed, dive in with us as we seek to understand its legal framework and context.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Franz Lake
- Date: July 14, 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.
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Link Love: 6/26/2015
- Date: June 26, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 5/10/2019
- Date: May 10, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Life & Death. Still & Moving Pictures.
- Date: July 23, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Marey Wheel Photographs of Unidentified Model, with Eadweard Muybridge Notations, by Thomas Eakins, 1884, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden."][/caption] Please be aware that some of the photographs included in links within this post may contain graphic and emotionally disturbing material. Which are more powerful,
Link Love: 12/18/2015
- Date: December 18, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Whole new world - The Audubon Mural Project is a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery to commission murals of climate-threatened birds surrounding the old neighborhood of John James Audubon. [via Colossal]Barriers to entry - The exhibition, Y.C. Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding
The Search Server is Dead, Long Live the Search Server.
- Date: April 30, 2019
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: The Archives says goodbye to one search server while welcoming in a new one.