Results for "United States. Office of the Chief of Naval Operations"
- Authority Record/EAC
United States Office of Naval Records and Library
- Date: 1915 1949
- Authority Record/EAC
United States. Office of Naval Research
- Creator: United States. Office of Naval Research
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 02-223, Klaverkamp, Robert B, Robert B. Klaverkamp Antarctic Collection, circa 1947-1948, 1958
- Date: 1947 1947-1958 circa 1947-1948, 1958
- Creator: Klaverkamp, Robert B.
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
A Fish Story
- Date: April 18, 2013
- Creator: Ginger Yowell
- Description: The United States Navy often consulted staff at the Smithsonian Institution when naming their submarines after fish.
- Blog Post
“Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971
- Date: August 21, 2018
- Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of
- Blog Post
Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse
- Date: January 24, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.
Navy Helicopter Flying Over Antarctica
- Date: 1947-1948
- Creator: Unknown
- Creator: Unknown
- Document
SIA2018-050170
William Shepherd Benson (1855-1932)
- Finding Aid
SIA RU009534, Classical Observation Techniques Videohistory Collection, 1988, 1991
- Date: 1988 1988-1991 1988, 1991
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Howard Gardiner Bowen (1883-1965)
- Creator: United States Navy
Howard Gardiner Bowen (1883-1965)
- Creator: United States Navy
