Results for "Spirit of America (Proposed exhibition)"
Design + Archives = 1/9/2014
- Date: January 9, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A look at some design from the National Air and Space Museum's past.
An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane
- Date: January 19, 2012
- Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.
Link Love: 1/10/2014
- Date: January 10, 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.
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2019
- Date: September 26, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this summer at SIA.
- Blog Post
Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- Date: January 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III
- Date: February 7, 2013
- Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.
Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"
- Date: November 10, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.
- Blog Post
Labor of Love: Art in Hard Times
- Date: September 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_2167" align="aligncenter" width="185" caption="Biddle at work on Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C. Photographer unknown. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942. Archives of American Art."][/caption] This Monday, as we observe Labor Day in the midst of a serious economic
- Blog Post
Smithsonian Volunteers: Thanks for the Time and Talent!
- Date: April 6, 2017
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: In celebration of over a century of volunteer contributions at the Smithsonian, explore the work of some stellar volunteers from our collection.
- Blog Post
Link Love: 5/13/2011
- Date: May 13, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Six children play on the sculpture "Uncle Beazley," the 25 foot long replica of a triceratops, placed on the Mall in front of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 23, Negative Number:
War Correspondents
- Date: July 26, 2012
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Discusses the opening of an exhibit When Time and Duty Permit: Smithsonian Collecting in World War II and the correspondence files that will be displayed.
Hearing the Unheard: the Smithsonian and the Riots of 1968
- Date: September 20, 2016
- Description: The riots following King’s assassination in 1968 transformed Smithsonian’s relationship to black history and culture.