Results for "Toward Our Third Century (Motion picture : 1976)"
Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2022
- Date: January 12, 2022
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!
Can You Relate? Connecting SIA Collections with Themes in the Transcription Center
- Date: July 16, 2013
- Description: How Transcription Center themes open connections for Smithsonian Archives' collections that create relatedness, unveil stories, and ask new questions.
Crowned Heads
- Date: September 10, 2013
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Royalty visits the Smithsonian Institution
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The Archives’ Hidden Women
- Date: March 15, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the
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Down at the Drive-In
- Date: August 4, 2009
- Description: [caption id="attachment_1679" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Untitled (Drive-In: Circle Theatre), Steve Fitch, 1976, Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection"][/caption] Media and transportation seem forever linked. As I wrote in a previous post, the portable camera and the bicycle made a very nice pairing in their early years at the turn of the 20th century.
The Archives Staff Kept Austin Weird at SAA 2019
- Date: August 20, 2019
- Description: This summer, members of the Archives staff packed their bags and headed to the 2019 Joint Annual Meeting of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and Society of American Archivists (SAA). When they returned, they refected om the most useful sessions and what topics they're looking for in the future.
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Introducing: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s Legacy
- Date: August 10, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.
The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky
- Date: July 15, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”
Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt
- Date: April 18, 2019
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.
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Looking Death in the Face
- Date: February 1, 2010
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Moseley, Greenwood Cemetery, 1998, by Titus Brooks Heagins, Digital photograph, Anacostia Community Museum, Titus Brooks Heagins Collection, Gift of Titus Brooks Heagins, © 1998 Titus Brooks Heagins, PH 2005.7010.01."][/caption] At one point, early in CNN’s round-the-clock television coverage of Haiti after the earthquake
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Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack
- Date: March 17, 2011
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be
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Fame ... By Any Other Name
- Date: March 20, 2012
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.