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Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2019
Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this summer at SIA.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our...
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Link Love: 9/27/2019
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.It's the last day of the 2019 Arctic Bird...
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Sneak Peek 9/30/2019
Buildings and grounds at Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, Georgia, featuring "Mystic Maze" and ferris wheel, 1895.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekExpositions
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Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions
Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.The Archives is made up of wonderful, helpful, and hard-working individuals who strive to acquire,...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Meredith L. Bastian
Dr. Meredith L. Bastian, Curator of Primates, Smithsonian’s National Zoo, 2014-present, oversees the exhibits and animals in the Zoo’s primate unit. She also supervises several behavioral research...
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#AskAnArchivist 2019: The Year of the GIF
You asked. We answered. On October 2, 2019, five Archive staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day. We kicked off American Archives Month...
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Link Love: 10/04/2019
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.Artist Himali Singh Soin’s upcoming film...
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Sneak Peek 10/7/2019
At the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, visitors view a papier mache replica of a Triceratops skeleton made by Frederic Lucas, assistant curator in the Section of Vertebrate Fossils at the...
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Happy Tin-th Anniversary!
A retrospective photo trip down the Archives’ conservation lab memory lane, featuring folks from past and present.Nine years ago I wrote Happy Paper Anniversary?—a year’s celebration of the Archives’...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Adela Gómez
Adela Gómez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1945-83, spent the majority of her years at the Smithsonian as a special administrative assistant to the director. In 1977, she was presented with...
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"Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science...
To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.In commemoration of National Dental Hygiene Month, the...
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Link Love: 10/11/2019
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.A new app guides DC’s tourists through...
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Sneak Peek 10/14/2019
U.S. Capitol building as seen from the tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, with Baltimore and Potomac railroad station and tracks in view, circa 1880, SIA RU000095, SA-197.Blog...
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Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
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.The...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lee Woodman
Lee Woodman held many roles at the Smithsonian, including as Senior Advisor to the Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, 2011–14; Executive Producer, Smithsonian Entertainment,...
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Science Service, Up Close: The “Porcupine” Letters
A 1936 exchange of letters about the prickly porcupine preserves both a contemporary scientific debate and the wit and wisdom of a young Utah girl with a beloved pet.In the first act of Hamlet, the...
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Link Love: 10/18/2019
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.After forty years, NASA has updated its...
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Sneak Peek 10/21/2019
Cyanotype, Department of Agriculture exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekExpositions
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Capturing Change
Caly McCarthy, Administrative Assistant, ForestGEOForests change over time, and so do the approaches of organizations that seek to protect them.Forests operate on a spatial and temporal scale that...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Caroline Newman
Caroline Newman, Executive Editor, Smithsonian Press, 1989–2008, brought many popular Smithsonian titles into publication. She also managed relationships with outside publishers seeking partnerships...
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