Results for "United States. Coast Guard"
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See Here: 3/18/2011
- Date: March 18, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Henry Collins, on a field trip, probably to Florida, is aboard the United States Coast Guard cutter U.S.S. Boxer, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9528, Box 1, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Oral History Interviews, Negative Number: SIA2009-2052."][/caption]
Spotlight: George Tsaroff
- Date: September 30, 2021
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local
Link Love: 11/9/2012
- Date: November 9, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail
- Date: June 1, 2021
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.
- Blog Post
See Here: 3/15/2011
- Date: March 15, 2011
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="In the hallways of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, every available foot of space is occupied by valuable collections housed carefully in metal covered cabinets to guard them from injury, 1936, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution
The Broad Mission of the Division of Inquiry
- Date: January 26, 2012
- Description: An examination of logbooks in the Smithsonian Institution Archives reveals the multiple ways that the Division of Inquiry in the United States Commission of Fish performed scientific work at marine laboratories in the early 20th century to fulfill their expansive mission statement.
Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian
- Date: April 26, 2018
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August
On Expedition with Waldo Schmitt
- Date: July 31, 2018
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, some of Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitts field books are worth tens of thousands of words.
Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927
- Date: February 2, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.
- Blog Post
ATMs & Virtual Wallets—What Did We Do Before Them?
- Date: August 28, 2012
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: How money was transferred in the 19th century before the era of the ATM.
Field Work and a World War
- Date: July 12, 2012
- Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.
The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still
- Date: August 19, 2021
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?