Results for "Smithsonian Time Capsule: 1968 (Television program)"
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Creating a Digital Smithsonian
- Date: September 28, 2010
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by
Welcoming Smithsonian Secretaries
- Date: November 5, 2019
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Lonnie G. Bunch III was installed as the Fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian on November 1, 2019 in the historic Arts and Industries Building. To celebrate this new day in Smithsonian history, let’s take a look back at installations past!
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Let’s Play the Name Game: Identifying Women Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: April 12, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: The Flickr Commons community helps the Archives identify images of Women in Science from our Science Service collections.
An Introduction to Oral History
- Date: June 9, 2020
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: Explore this brief introduction to oral history based on best practices used in the Archives’ Smithsonian Oral History Program.
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In Her Own Image
- Date: March 30, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!
- Date: January 30, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping
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Battle for the Castle
- Date: November 15, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Clydia Nahwooksy
- Date: December 1, 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.
Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994
- Date: July 5, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.
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Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers
- Date: July 28, 2011
- Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Peggy A. Loar
- Date: April 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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Archiving a Dream
- Date: December 7, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or