Results for "Urban Open Spaces (Traveling exhibition)"
Walt Disney's Progressland
- Date: July 21, 2016
- Creator: Hillary Brady
- Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.
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Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!
- Date: October 22, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"
More of Our Favorite (Digital) Things
- Date: November 12, 2020
- Description: It’s time to add to our list of our favorite digital items from the Archives.
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See Here: 8/5/2010
- Date: August 5, 2010
- Creator: The Bigger Picture
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Apollo 11 Command Module just fitting through the doors of the Arts and Industries Building as it is being moved out to go to the soon to open National Air and Space Museum, August 26, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:
Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn
- Date: July 25, 2013
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”
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?
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‘Oh, I’m Glad That’s on the Mall’: NMAAHC Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary
- Date: September 23, 2021
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture marks its fifth anniversary.
Design + Archives: Anacostia Community Museum
- Date: February 21, 2017
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Celebrating 50 years in 2017, the Anacostia Community Museum opened on September 15, 1967.
Link Love: 5/1/2015
- Date: May 1, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Link Love: 12/6/2013
- Date: December 6, 2013
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Three Cheers for Embedded Metadata
- Date: February 28, 2012
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Metadata is a helpful tool. When you have embedded metadata, all the better when trying to figure out what something might be.
How did the Smithsonian Respond to the 1918 Pandemic?
- Date: June 11, 2020
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Masks and endless sanitizing again? What has the Smithsonian done during past pandemics? We’ll look back to the public health emergency in 1918.