Results for "Spanish-American War, 1898"
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Ann Beltran
- Date: March 9, 2022
- Description: Estela the anthropologist, a young woman of the Roaring 20’s, and architect Nikos, struggling to put the Great War and Spanish flu behind him. Are they soulmates? Perhaps. Yet for 20 years the romance never leaves the National Mall. What keeps them apart lies within.
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SIA RU007151, Cochran, Doris M (Doris Mable) 1898-1968, Doris Mable Cochran Papers, circa 1891-1968
- Date: 1891 1891-1968 circa 1891-1968
- Creator: Cochran, Doris M., (Doris Mabel), 1898-1968
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
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Inter-American Cooperation
- Date: April 18, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_7144,size=200,right]During construction of the Panama Canal at the start of the century, many laborers died of malaria and yellow fever. To find ways to control the diseases, North American biologists came to the isthmus of Panama. Some of these scientists were so impressed by the diversity of the natural environment that they later
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American Art Museum and National Portrait Gallery
- Date: September 5, 2013
- Description: The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) and the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) are two different museums that had their origins in the Smithsonian’s National Gallery of Art. They have been housed in the old Patent Office Building since 1968. The American Art Museum was established in 1907 under the name “National Gallery of Art.” The National Portrait Gallery was
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Jesse Walter Fewkes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_arc_290975,size=200,left]Born in Newton, Massachusetts, his scientific career is divided into two distinct research fields and time periods. The first deals with marine zoology and the last with anthropology. Fewkes received a Ph.D. in marine zoology from Harvard in 1877, and was curator of lower invertebrates at the Museum of Comparative
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William Henry Holmes
- Date: April 4, 2017
- Description: [view in Spanish]Born near Cadiz, Ohio, in the year the Smithsonian was founded, 1846, Holmes's life was intimately tied to the institution from the time he was twenty-five until his retirement in 1932 when he was 86.He began work as an artist drawing specimens for a number of naturalists in the employ of Spencer Fullerton Baird, then Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian
- SI History Chronology
"The American Poster" Opens at NCFA
- Date: April 25, 1969 20th century
Relics from the "Maine" in the Hall of Naval History
- Date: 1952
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
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SIA Acc. 94-112, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Armed Forces History, Exhibition Records, circa 1952-1989 with related materials from 1883
- Date: 1952 1952-1989 circa 1952-1989 with related materials from 1883
- Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Armed Forces History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act to Establish a National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Date: 2004 December 16, 2003 20th century 1783-1865 1865-1898 Civil War, 1861-1865 1933-1945
- Creator: 108th Congress, Sess. 1, 2003
- Creator: 108th Congress, Sess. 1, 2003
Link Love: 8/24/2018
- Date: August 24, 2018
- 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.
Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning
- Date: August 2, 2016
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.
