Results for "Web sites"
Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
- Date: October 15, 2019
- Creator: Tammy L. Peters
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.
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The Smithsonian and Latin America
- Date: February 15, 2018
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has
"Torch" PDFs now Available in Search
- Date: May 26, 2015
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: We’re glad to announce another update to the Smithsonian Institution Archives site search.
A Conservator Abroad: Paper Conservation in Japan
- Date: November 16, 2017
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: Nearly two years ago, I first heard of a course on the conservation of Japanese paper co-organized by ICCROM, the cultural heritage arm of UNESCO, and the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties (also known in Japanese as “Tobunken”). Over three weeks, the course offered a first-hand look at the traditional Japanese conservation techniques, materials, and
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Are You There?
- Date: July 29, 2009
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,
Another Year of Collecting Online History
- Date: March 31, 2022
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: Changing museum hours and new websites meant another busy year for Smithsonian website archiving.
Betty J. Meggers: Pioneer in Environmental Archaeology
- Date: March 7, 2017
- Creator: Tad Bennicoff
- Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.
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A Sense of Place
- Date: February 24, 2011
- Creator: Nora Lockshin
- Description: [caption id="attachment_11498" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Out of The Depths, or, the Triumph of the Cross by Nellie Arnold Plummer. AHC 2003.0025.1, in its custom clamshell box after full conservation (inset: before treatment condition), Courtesy Nora Lockshin and Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be
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American History in an Earthenware Teacup
- Date: January 14, 2016
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.
Smithsonian Now Using Archive-It to Crawl Websites
- Date: February 26, 2013
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives announces its use of Archive-It to crawl websites.
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Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude
- Date: December 31, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of
Sneak Peek 5/26/2014
- Date: May 26, 2014
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Unidentified Men in Automobile at "Commands Honored" Monument at the Gettysburg Battle Site