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Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: June 10, 2014
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
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Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian
- Date: August 18, 2020
- Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.
Harriman Alaska Expedition
- Date: April 5, 2012
- Description: A profile of the Archives' collections related to the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 which explored Alaska's flora, fauna, and geography.
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.
"The whole Smithsonian was like one big family . . . "
- Date: March 12, 2013
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.
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Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher
- Date: August 23, 2018
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who
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Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers
- Date: March 24, 2016
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.
Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?
- Date: October 12, 2017
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific
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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."
Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925
- Date: January 19, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.
Dorothy Rosenberg: "A Low-keyed Dynamo"
- Date: September 16, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: As an administrative officer to two Assistant Secretaries and as executive assistant to Secretary Ripley, Dorothy Rosenberg was the backbone behind the Smithsonian’s top offices between 1959 and 1980.
The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 4
- Date: November 7, 2011
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.