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Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century
Elizabeth Harmon, Curator, American Women's History Initiative, Smithsonian Institution ArchivesLearn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.As promised in my last blog, I...
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Link Love: 10/25/2019
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.This weekend, join the celebration for the...
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Sneak Peek 10/28/2019
Cyanotype, disassembled mannequins in Post Office Department exhibit at Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, 1895.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekExpositions
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Joseph Henry Hypes Hypsometers
Deborah Warner, Curator, Physical Sciences Collection, National Museum of American History Although initially skeptical about the effectiveness of the hypsometer, Secretary Joseph Henry soon recognized...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dorothy Rosenberg
Dorothy Rosenberg served as an administrative officer to two Smithsonian Assistant Secretaries, 1959–73, before becoming Executive Assistant to Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, 1973–80. In 1979, she earned...
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Return of…the Beast
In a return to the seasonal bonfire, we look at how fire and its suppression impacts boxed and unboxed optical disks.The primordial and professional fear of fire flickers forth again in this year’s...
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Link Love: 11/01/2019
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.What's your format? The National Archives...
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Sneak Peek 11/4/2019
Drawing of "Neptune Baird," dog belonging to Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, circa 1840s.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekSecretariesDogs
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Welcoming Smithsonian Secretaries
Lonnie G. Bunch III was installed as the Fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian on November 1, 2019 in the historic Arts and Industries Building. To celebrate this new day in Smithsonian history,...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Priscilla L. Strain
Priscilla L. Strain has worked for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Center for Earth and Planetary Studies since 1974 as a Research Assistant, 1974-79, Geologist, 1979-87, and Program...
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Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley
A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.English physicist Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley (1887-1915) was engaged in research at...
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Link Love: 11/8/2019
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.World Digital Preservation Day and...
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Sneak Peek 11/11/2019
Cyanotype, Camp F.L. Guenther, U.S. Coast Artillery at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekExpositions
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“A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the...
Jieun Shin, Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution ArchivesThe DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke
Dr. Joan W. Nowicke, Curator, Department of Botany, was an internationally recognized palynologist specializing in pollen morphology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1972–99....
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We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian
In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough. It’s something that comes up every year....
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Link Love: 11/15/2019
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.The Digital Preservation Coalition’s...
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Sneak Peek 11/18/2019
Carte-de-visite of James Law (1838-1921), first veterinary professor at an American university, by Purdy & Frear.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekPortraits
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Another Smithsonian Gem
The Archives also preserves ecological research.Less than thirty-five miles from the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland,...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cara McCarty
Cara McCarty, Curatorial Director, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2007–present, manages the museum’s collection and exhibition planning. McCarty was also a leader in overseeing the museum’s...
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