Results for "United States National Museum. Section of Agricultural History"
A Quest for the First Asian Employee
- Date: May 10, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: A search for the first Asian employee at the Smithsonian leads to Kuang-zung Tung.
Link Love: 9/19/2014
- Date: September 19, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees
- Date: August 4, 2016
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.
Betty J. Meggers: Pioneer in Environmental Archaeology
- Date: March 7, 2017
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.
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See Here: 1/4/2011
- Date: January 4, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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See Here: 1/26/2011
- Date: January 26, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore
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Revisiting the Construction of the Freer Gallery of Art
- Date: September 29, 2016
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Some new insights from the construction records of the Freer Gallery of Art, celebrating 100 years since groundbreaking.
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See Here: 4/22/2011
- Date: April 22, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to
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.
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William Stimpson and the Smithsonian’s First Aquarium
- Date: July 14, 2015
- Description: William Stimpson and the first aquarium at the Smithsonian Institution.
Here's Looking at You
- Date: June 25, 2013
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A peek into our metrics program at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Takin' Care of Records
- Date: April 17, 2018
- Creator: Heidi Stover
- Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at