Results for "Smithsonian's NMNH Local Edition (Blog)"
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Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford
- Date: March 11, 2014
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Carla M. Borden
- Date: June 29, 2022
- 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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See Here: 4/11/2011
- Date: April 11, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Print of the original architectural drawing of the National Museum of Natural History Building, originally known as the United States National Museum Building, Drawn by architects Hornblower and Marshall in 1906 in black and red ink pen on cloth, 1906, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 000092, Box CGMC, Folder
Fifty Years and Many More to Come!
- Date: September 12, 2017
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that
- Blog Post
Stumped!
- Date: October 12, 2010
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Unidentified Washington, DC Church, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, RU007355."][/caption] Recently the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted some images from the Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection,
Happy Tin-th Anniversary!
- Date: October 8, 2019
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: A retrospective photo trip down the Archives’ conservation lab memory lane, featuring folks from past and present.
What’s not to love about slideshows?
- Date: February 10, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
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A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson
- Date: September 29, 2015
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.
Link Love: 8/28/2020
- Date: August 28, 2020
- Description: Attend today’s virtual historic film screening in commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment! [via UCLA Film & Television Archive] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_397460,size=350,center]Got an itch to meet the Smithsonian’s resident mosquito expert? [via Smithsonian Voices]The New York Public Library podcast explores the life’s work and
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Link Love: 5/21/2010
- Date: May 21, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website
- Date: October 13, 2020
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People
- Date: March 21, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.