Results for "Whaling"
A Whale of a Tale
- Date: November 13, 2014
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.
Archives Puzzles: The Scale of the Whale
- Date: February 22, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.
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Link Love: 9/24/2010
- Date: September 24, 2010
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
Link Love: 12/21/2018
- Date: December 21, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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The Saint Augustine Monster
- Date: August 18, 2010
- Creator: Mary Markey
- Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two
Link Love: 5/6/2016
- Date: May 6, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Marines are investigating a possible case of mistaken identity in the iconic WWII Iwo Jima photo. [via NPR]The little known history behind Cinco de Mayo. [via Smithsonian Magazine]A short film on the Smithsonian's incredible whale skeleton collection. [via Hakai Magazine]The Prelinger Archives has published 6600 public domain films to the Internet Archive! [via Open Culture]A
Link Love: 10/04/2019
- Date: October 4, 2019
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
Link Love: 5/26/2017
- Date: May 26, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Entertaining "Page Not Found' 404's from museums. [via Hyperallergic]Paleontologist Nick Pyenson, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, used museum collections to determine the reason baleen whales became gigantic. Plus you can help transcribe specimen labels from our Fossil Marine Invertebrates collection! [via NY Times] Harvard archivists found what they believe
Link Love: 5/17/2013
- Date: May 17, 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.
Sneak Peek 1/22/2018
- Date: January 22, 2018
- Creator: Marguerite Roby
- Description: Cast and skeleton of blue whale (sulphur-bottom whale) at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, also known as the St. Louis World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri, MNH-16459.
Link Love: 01/22/2021
- Date: January 22, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.
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Link Love: 10/12/2018
- Date: October 12, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.