Results for "Smithsonian War Committee"
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National Academy of Sciences
- Date: March 21, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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A Bill to provide for the disposal and management of the Smithson fund
- Date: 03/05/1840
- Creator: 26th Congress, Sess 1, 1840, House of Representatives
- Creator: 26th Congress, Sess 1, 1840, House of Representatives
Joseph Henry's Letter to Alexander Bache (July 30, 1864)
- Date: July 30, 1864 Civil War, 1861-1865
- Creator: Henry, Joseph 1797-1878,Joseph Henry Papers Project
- Creator: Henry, Joseph 1797-1878,Joseph Henry Papers Project
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SIA Acc. 22-102, Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative, Director's Records, 1953-1954, 1985-1986, 1988, 2000-2019
- Date: 1953 1953-1954 1953-1954, 1985-1986, 1988, 2000-2019
- Creator: Smithsonian Provenance Research Initiative
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Publicity, Politics, and Physics
- Date: March 10, 2010
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major. Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult. Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum. Its people and discoveries coexisted with
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A Bill to appoint trustees for the investment of the Smithsonian fund
- Date: 02/10/1841
- Creator: 26th Congress, Sess 2, 1841, Senate
- Creator: 26th Congress, Sess 2, 1841, Senate
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September 27, 1916 - Goddard's Proposal to the Smithsonian
- Date: September 14, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Records and Information Management Month: The Registrar
- Date: April 23, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Did you know that April is Records and Information Management Month? What is records and information management? Glad you asked! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Dan Brown Books, by Federico Filacchione, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Information is collected data, thoughts, ideas, or memories. Records are documents that contain information
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An Act to Establish the Smithsonian Institution, 1846
- Date: March 7, 2017
- Creator: swaing
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To amend the National Labor Relations Act, to provide additional facilities for the mediation of labor disputes affecting commerce, to equalize legal responsibilities of labor organizations and employers, and for other purposes
- Date: 1948 06/23/1947
- Creator: 80th Congress, Sess. 1, 1947
- Creator: 80th Congress, Sess. 1, 1947
- Regents
Mason, James Murray (11/03/1798-04/28/1871)
- Date: Regent Tenure: 03/06/1849-07/11/1861 Civil War, 1861-1865
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Naturalist of the Americas: Alexander Wetmore
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and avian paleontologist, was the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary (1945-1952). As a young biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wetmore conducted extensive fieldwork in Latin America. He spent 1911 in Puerto Rico studying bird life, and later traveled through South