Results for "The United States Census, 1790-1960 (Exhibition) (1960: Washington, D.C.)"
Link Love: 11/9/2012
- Date: November 9, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Welcome to Smithsonian Football!
- Date: February 7, 2017
- Creator: Patrick Milhoan
- Description: A brief history of the Smithsonian staff flag football team.
- Blog Post
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website
- Date: April 3, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_392769,size=450,center]The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website.See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Unlocking the Vault
- Date: February 28, 2013
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.
Crowned Heads
- Date: September 10, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Royalty visits the Smithsonian Institution
Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice
- Date: May 14, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."
- Blog Post
Heart of Glass
- Date: October 5, 2017
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph
Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!
- Date: May 12, 2022
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: October 4, 2018
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.
Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008
- Date: July 30, 2020
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their identification, description, conservation, storage, and exhibition.
Women in Humanities
- Date: March 3, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.
A (Brief) History of Sloths at the Smithsonian
- Date: October 20, 2020
- Creator: Jessica Scott
- Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.