Results for "United States. Public Health Service"
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Link Love: 5/7/2010
- Date: May 7, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Board of Regents: Providing Guidance to the Stewards of the National Collections
- Date: September 8, 2016
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian
- Date: February 4, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.
Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura
- Date: May 5, 2022
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.
Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell
- Date: April 7, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.
Sweet Caroline
- Date: November 18, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: The Kennedy Family presents their twin engine Convair CV-240, "Caroline" to the Smithsonian.
Robert Ridgway: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees
- Date: April 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Robert Ridgway, known primarily for his extensive contributions to ornithology and as curator of birds for the United States National Museum, was also a keen observer of the changing landscape in areas where he conducted his detailed studies.
Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online
- Date: September 8, 2015
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.
Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating
- Date: January 14, 2020
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.
Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge
- Date: May 5, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and
Recognizing the Smithsonian Staff Who Served in the Gulf War
- Date: November 10, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: This Veterans Day, we salute the 21 men and women at the Smithsonian who served in the Gulf War.
Oh Beautiful - The Grand Canyon
- Date: January 8, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Slideshow of historic images of the Grand Canyon from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.