Results for "Treasures (Online exhibition)"
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Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.
- Date: February 16, 2011
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. When I interviewed Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project click! photography changes
Another Year of Collecting Online History
- Date: March 31, 2022
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Changing museum hours and new websites meant another busy year for Smithsonian website archiving.
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Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’
- Date: December 23, 2014
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.
Link Love: 7/15/2016
- Date: July 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A cook's delight: 3000 vintage cookbooks now available on the Internet Archive. [via Open Culture]A growing online archive of Vernacular Typography. [via Hyperallergic]18th century toilets beget treasures! [via Huffington Post]Space travel plans? You can download the code that took America to the moon from GitHub. [via Quartz]Museums on my bucket list; Japan's museum for
A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson
- Date: December 4, 2012
- Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.
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Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair
- Date: October 19, 2012
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."
Be a Friend in 2013!
- Date: January 29, 2013
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives needs your help in strengthening our collections through donations of your time and resources. Please check out our new online donations page.
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October is American Archives Month: Fin.
- Date: November 4, 2010
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: November is here and the leaves seem to finally be changing, which heralds the end of October is American Archives Month. Our 31-day Blogathon was a smashing success, garnering about 10,000 visits, and even though Archives month has come to a close, we will continue to post about our profession, our stories, and our wonderfully unique treasures. [caption id="attachment_9907"
Exhibitions and Weather Conditions at an Exposition
- Date: May 29, 2012
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution’s involvement in the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California.
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Freaks and Geeks
- Date: May 12, 2010
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: In the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we each have our favorite stories that are told through materials in our collections. Several times a year we might give "treasures shows" for interns or special visitors, and we pluck items that highlight moments and people in the Institution's history. We pull out a draft of James Smithson's will, letters from the Wright brothers,
The Smithsonian and South Carolina in the Civil War
- Date: June 6, 2013
- Description: A surprising Civil War connection between the Smithsonian and Beaufort, South Carolina.
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Ask the Smithsonian, Third Time’s the Charm
- Date: October 11, 2012
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: Experts from the Smithsonian Institution invite visitors to see how to and care for their own archival collections and treasures.