Results for "The May Project (Blog)"
- Blog Author
Susannah Wells
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022
- Date: November 3, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.
Un-Locke the Mystery
- Date: March 13, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.
- Blog Post
The Enid A. Haupt Garden
- Date: January 20, 2015
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 21-057, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.), Website Records, 1998-2020
- Date: 1998 1998-2020
- Creator: National Museum of Natural History
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Link Love: 5/11/2018
- Date: May 11, 2018
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum looks at the history of rapid change in Washington D.C., the ensuing inequality, and neighborhood activism with A Right to the City. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Check out the newly released 2018 National Design Award winners from the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt. [via Architect Magazine]There may be a developing love story at our
The Journey to Recovery: A Tale of Earthquake Damage and Repair in Haiti
- Date: February 23, 2012
- Description: The story of the damage context and advanced treatment of a Stivenson Magloire painting broken into fragments by the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
- Blog Author
Heidi Stover
- Date: September 1, 2015
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Webpage
Help with making documents more legible?
- Date: September 2, 2011
- Description: I’m working with old papers that are difficult to read. Is there any technique which can help me make the text more legible?
The Future Is Here
- Date: October 26, 2017
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: Welcome to the newly refreshed Smithsonian Institution Archives website! As our regular visitors may have noticed, we launched a new theme for our site on September 27, 2017. Our previous Drupal theme was first launched in 2011 when we moved our site over to Drupal. Since that time, we have upgraded the backend, made improvements to our searching, and increased the
- Blog Post
Please Feed the Visitors!
- Date: August 3, 2010
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [caption id="attachment_7706" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="First eBook made by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media, August 2, 2010"]You [/caption] Update: You can read a follow-up post about the Anthologize project and process here. As Head of Web & New Media, I'm always looking for ways we can engage visitors with our papers, photographs,
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Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response
- Date: March 16, 2021
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.