Results for "Update"
How the Archives Gets its Records (or, Golden Lion Tamarins Galore)
- Date: October 27, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Panda-monium!
- Date: April 16, 2012
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Arrival of giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling to the National Zoological Park.
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Volunteers and the Smithsonian: A History
- Date: April 5, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
There Are Records and Then There Are Records
- Date: April 12, 2016
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Records, not to be confused with albums, are defined as information created or received during the course of business.
The Substitute Mother
- Date: January 20, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
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The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 9, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific
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Paper vs. Electronic: The Not-So-Final Battle
- Date: April 10, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The question of which is better - paper or electronic records - doesn't have a simple answer.
The Smithsonian and the Poor People's Campaign
- Date: January 17, 2017
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.
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A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo
- Date: August 23, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary
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Just what is an archives, anyway?
- Date: October 5, 2010
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: This month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, along with many other archives across the Smithsonian and around the nation, will be celebrating American Archives Month. The purpose of this celebration is "to raise awareness about the value of archives and archivists." We write a lot about what an archivist does on this blog, but, for those of you who don't know and are
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A Living Exhibition
- Date: July 19, 2011
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution has long been known for both its original research and its exhibitions. But, it was not until 1980 that the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first exhibited an on-going active research project, the world's first indoor living coral reef.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_7411,size=450,center]In the late 1960s, when NMNH paleobiologist Walter H. Adey
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Mothers Day Inspiration
- Date: May 9, 2017
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Get ready for Mother's Day with these images of Smithsonian staff and their families caring for young animals.