Results for "Washington Evening Star"
- SI History Bibliography
It's For the Birds - Re-redone Aviary at Zoo Re-ready
- Date: September 4, 1968
- Creator: Schaden, Herman
- Creator: Schaden, Herman
- SI History Bibliography
A Closer View: Birds and People to Mingle at Zoo, B, p. 1
- Date: September 2, 1964
- Creator: Sherwood, John
- Creator: Sherwood, John
- Blog Post
“Fair Women Seeking Secrets of Plant and Animal Phenomena”
- Date: March 3, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: Exploring news coverage of women’s work in the sciences at the Smithsonian in the early twentieth century.
Rediscovering Historical Perspectives: A Newspaper Update on World War II
- Date: November 11, 2014
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000096, Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian News Clipping File, 1852-1971
- Date: 1852 1852-1971
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine Lemmon Manning
- Date: June 2, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
The Rich Legacy of Elvira Clain-Stefanelli
- Date: March 18, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Though small in stature, Elvira Clain-Stefanelli was a force to be reckoned with at the Smithsonian, where she earned the role of the first executive director of the National Museum of American History’s National Numismatic Collection.
- Webpage
American Negro Artists (National Gallery of Art, 1929-1930)
- Date: August 25, 2016
- Description: On May 16, 1929, an exhibition of American Negro Artists opened on the ground floor of the Smithsonian’s US National Museum building. The exhibition featured fifty-one works by twenty-seven black sculptors and painters who won a juried competition sponsored by the Harmon Foundation.1Though the work selected remained distant from the most radical new work being created by
- Document
Torch 07/1965
- Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1965 Box 1 Folder 7
- Webpage
Solomon Brown
- Date: August 19, 2016
- Description: Born in 1829 to free black parents along the border between Maryland and the District of Columbia, Solomon Galleon Brown would become, at age 23, the first black employee of the Smithsonian. Starting out as a laborer in the Exchange Office, he ultimately became the personal assistant of Spencer Baird, the second secretary of the Smithsonian. By the time of his 1904 retirement,
Hot Topics in Archival Research
- Date: June 10, 2014
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-177, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Space History Division, Subject Files, 1980-2014
- Date: 1980 1980-2014
- Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives