Results for "The May Project (Blog)"
Celebrate National Teacher's Day with Education Resources at the Archives
- Date: May 8, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: In honor of National Teacher's Day, the Archives shares some of its K-12 teaching resources and lesson plans.
Protection of Collections during Retrofit or Renovation
- Date: May 2, 2019
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Yesterday, we celebrated MayDay2019 by reviewing the contents of Nora’s PRICE team go-bag, which you can explore in this Facebook Live, courtesy of the Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation!This MayDay post comes to you at a time when cultural heritage disasters on a mass scale are fresh in people’s minds. Paying attention to high visibility events offers opportunity
The David Crockett Graham Field Book Collection: A Portal for Chinese Culture and Biodiversity
- Date: June 21, 2012
- Description: A closer look into the life and work of biologist, anthropologist and missionary David Crockett Graham.
Full Steam Ahead: The Motorcycle’s Bicycle Beginnings
- Date: May 24, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: A look at the steam tricycle and other bicycle innovations during the turn of the 20th century.
A Legend in Termite Field Biology
- Date: March 2, 2021
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.
You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A
- Date: November 4, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and
Looking Towards the Future: An Audiovisual Preservation Readiness Assessment
- Date: July 23, 2019
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has been spending a lot of time looking at our audiovisual preservation practices. Check out the results from our recent assessment!
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Link Love: 9/17/2010
- Date: September 17, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Smithsonian's Photo Summit
- Date: October 12, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.
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Now you see it, sometimes you don’t, but thank goodness for archives
- Date: May 13, 2010
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week
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Mapping the Moon
- Date: May 19, 2009
- Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of
Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994
- Date: July 5, 2018
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.