Results for "United States. Office of Alien Property"

1. Finding Aid

   SIA Acc. 84-178, United States General Land Office, Catalogue of Rocks, Minerals, and Natural History Specimens, 1868-1872

   • Date: 1868 1868-1872
   • Creator: United States. General Land Office
   • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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3. SI History Bibliography

   A Popular Catalogue of the Extraordinary Curiosities in the National Institute, arranged in the building belonging to the Patent Office. Curiosities collected from all parts of the world, by the officers of the Army and Navy of the United States ..

   • Date: 1859
   • Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science
   • Creator: National Institute for the Promotion of Science

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   SIA RU000124, United States National Museum Office of the Registrar, Shipment Records, 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892-1893, 1897-1898, 1901

   • Date: 1880 1880-1901 1880, 1884, 1888, 1892-1893, 1897-1898, 1901
   • Creator: United States National Museum. Office of the Registrar
   • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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7. Smithsonian Legal Document

   An Act To enact title 5, United States Code, "Government Organization and Employees," codifying the general and permanent laws relating to the organization of the Government of the United States and to its civilian officers and employees

   • Date: 1967 09/06/1966
   • Creator: 89th Congress, Sess. 2, 1966
   • Creator: 89th Congress, Sess. 2, 1966

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9. Blog Post

   Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

   • Date: October 9, 2018
   • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
   • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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    Glossary

    • Date: August 6, 2021
    • Description: Alien: to transfer property title or ownership; this is a specific use of a word that at the time could mean “to separate,” which is how our modern words alien meaning “extraterrestrial” and alienate are all etymologically related to this older word. Annuity: an annual payment or allowance. Henrietta Maria Walker received an annuity from her brother, Lumley Hungerford Keate,

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    United States Fish Commission Offices

    • Date: 1880 1880s
    • Creator: Smillie, T. W (Thomas William) 1843-1917

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    United States Fish Commission Offices

    • Date: 1880 1880s
    • Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

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    Exterior View of United States Fish Commission Offices

    • Date: 1880 1880s
    • Creator: United States National Museum Photographic Laboratory

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    Old Ways in the New World 

    • Date: March 9, 2022
    • Description: Foreign Service Office Scruggs is again entangled in a mystery at the Smithsonian. As part of United States 1976 bicentennial celebration, Smithsonian visitors include ethnomusicologist from Aganga who is murdered. Scruggs must solve the crime. 

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21. Smithsonian Legal Document

    An act to provide for the operation and maintenance of the Panama Canal under the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977, and for other purposes

    • Date: 1981 09/27/1979
    • Creator: 96th Congress, Sess. 1, 1979
    • Creator: 96th Congress, Sess. 1, 1979

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    Walking in the Footsteps of Hungerfords

    • Date: September 15, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract dividing a lucrative land inheritance between the mother and aunt of the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson. Over the last three years I have been able to take a deep dive into the content of the Deed and strengthen our understanding of Smithson’s choice to leave his

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