Results for "United States Coast Survey"
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections
- Date: April 21, 2016
- Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
- Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.
O’Sullivan’s West and More
- Date: February 26, 2010
- Description: Framing the West is a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It features 120 of the extraordinary photographs Timothy O’Sullivan made for the King and Wheeler Surveys, two of the most important geological surveys of the western United States. The exhibition demonstrates not only the ability of the camera to capture the details of place, but the talent of
Sneak Peek: Eclipse Edition
- Date: August 21, 2017
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Solar Eclipse Expedition, Wadesboro, North Carolina, 1900.
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.
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jean Milton Berdan
- Date: July 6, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Link Love: 7/20/2012
- Date: July 20, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Sneak Peek 1/8/2018
- Date: January 8, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Wessington House, Edenton, North Carolina (N.C.), photographed by United States Fish Commission during survey of N.C. fisheries, circa 1878, Acc. No. 11-006, MAH-4911.
A Wonderful Wetmore Adventure
- Date: May 31, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: Thanks to our volunteers who transcribed the entirety of the Alexander Wetmore photo album collection!
Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist
- Date: January 14, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.
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See Here: 5/20/2011
- Date: May 20, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Image of the shoreline of Haiti, caption reads, "Hayti. Port au Prince from S.S. Panama at dock," The image was taken by Albert Spear Hitchcock, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Smithsonian's United States National Herbarium while on the Biological Survey of the Panama
The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail
- Date: June 1, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.