Results for "United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development"
- SI History Bibliography
The Influence of the Smithsonian Institution upon the Development of Libraries, The Organization of the Work of Societies, and the Publication of Scientific Literature in the United States
- Date: 1897
- Creator: Billings, John Shaw 1838-1913
- Creator: Billings, John Shaw 1838-1913
Frank Baldwin Jewett (left) with James McKeen Cattell (right)
- Date: 1941
- Creator: Davis, Fremont 1915-1977
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To provide for cooperation by the Smithsonian Institution with State, educational, and scientific organizations in the United States for continuing ethnological researches on the American Indians
- Date: 1929 04/10/1928
- Creator: 70th Congress, Sess. 1, 1928
- Creator: 70th Congress, Sess. 1, 1928
History and Chronologies
- Date: July 5, 2012
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: As the National Museum of American History's new director, John Gray, begins his tenure we take a look back at those who proceeded him.
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.
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Expeditions
- Date: March 21, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
- Historic Pictures
National Museum of American History
- Date: April 18, 2011
- Description: The National Museum of American History, known as the National Museum of History and Technology until 1980, was established in 1957 to house the growing US National Museum’s collections on the social, cultural, scientific, and technological history of the United States. The new museum opened in January of 1964.History of the National Museum of American HistoryAdditional
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Anthropology
- Date: March 21, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports
- Date: May 19, 2016
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.
- Smithsonian Legal Document
An Act To amend the Act entitled "An Act to provide for cooperation by the Smithsonian Institution with State, educational, and scientific organizations in the United States for continuing ethnological researches on the American Indians," approved April 10, 1928, and for other purposes
- Date: 1950 08/22/1949
- Creator: 81st Congress, Sess. 1, 1949
- Creator: 81st Congress, Sess. 1, 1949
- Blog Post
Where’s Waldo . . . L. Schmitt?
- Date: February 18, 2016
- Creator: Patrick Milhoan
- Description: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.
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William Healey Dall: Alaskan Explorer
- Date: September 14, 2012
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
