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Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website
See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website. The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is...
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Link Love: 4/10/2020
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. For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries...
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Sneak Peek 4/13/2020
A keeper feeds Asian elephants Hitam and Kechil in the octagonal elephant barn at the National Zoological Park, 1918.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekNational Zoological Park
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Distance Learning Activities and Tips from the Archives
Whether you have a little downtime or you wish you remembered what downtime was like, the Archives is here for you with a few distance learning activities and organization tips. Whether you have a...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jeanne Benas
Jeanne Benas was an Assistant Registrar at the National Museum of Air and Space, 1982–85, and an Assistant Registrar and Registrar at the National Museum of American History, 1985–2015. She is a...
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Orchids and Oral History
Hannah ByrneLet’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview. It’s National...
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Link Love: 4/17/2020
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. For National Library Week, help the...
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Sneak Peek 4/20/2020
Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, demonstrates horse riding technique of a Dakota warrior.Blog Categories: Collections in FocusBlog Tags: Sneak PeekBureau of...
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Where to Begin? Determining Founding Dates in ForestGEO’s Global Network of...
Caly McCarthy, Administrative Assistant, Forest GEOBehind the seemingly objective certitude of a date lies an argument about what counts.ForestGEO counts trees. We’re a Smithsonian-led network that...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Betty Strickler
Betty Strickler, Chief of the Travel Services Office, 1966–77, managed a small office that was responsible for making travel arrangements for Smithsonian employees and guests across the world....
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Serendipity and Unexpected Connections
Ellen Alers Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”In the past, I’ve found...
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Link Love: 4/24/2020
Deborah ShapiroLink 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 National Museum of...
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The Born-Digital Diaries: “Interrogate the Floppy!”
Julie Rockwell, Digital Services Intern, Smithsonian Institution ArchivesAs an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Estelle Beck
Estelle Beck, Head Switchboard Operator, 1960–77, led a small team of women who were responsible for fielding hundreds of daily calls to the Smithsonian. Beck also operated telephones at the...
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MayDay as Earth Day
Nora Lockshin Now is the time to explore how can we attach sustainability goals to the annual AIC, ALA and SAA Preservation Week/Month events and their MayDay calls to action.As I write this crossover...
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Link Love: 5/1/2020
Deborah ShapiroLink Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.Free webinars!?!?? For...
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Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge
Elizabeth Harmon, Digital Curator, Smithsonian Institution ArchivesOne of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian, Margaret Moodey, helped identify and catalogue major collections in the...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dorothy Briggs
Dorothy Briggs, Art Restoration Specialist, National Museum of American History, 1959–82, restored historic clock dials, period pieces of ceramic art, and paintings. Briggs was also considered a...
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“Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth
Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution Archives, & Jeffrey K. Stine, Curator for Environmental History, National Museum of American HistoryCorrespondence between...
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Link Love: 5/8/2020
Deborah ShapiroLink Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie...
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