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Link Love: 07/17/2020
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.A recent obituary celebrates...
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Archives Puzzles: The Unbothered Bison
This summer, 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...
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The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life
Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”Today marks the 95th anniversary of the guilty verdict in the Tennessee v. John T. Scopes trial. In the...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cathy L. Helm
Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.Cathy L. Helm has been the Inspector General for...
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Arthur Wilson Stelfox: Another Gift from the United Kingdom
With a large personal collection of specimens, Arthur Wilson Stelfox took steps to ensure his work will go on for decades to come.“A very generous gift of more than 88,000 Irish Hymenoptera, donated by...
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Link Love: 07/24/2020
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.Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on...
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Archives Puzzles: Hump Day Already?!
This summer, 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...
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Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!
Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.July has been an important date in the history of the Hungerford Deed, our recently acquired legal document that is a record of...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Madeleine Jacobs
Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday. Madeleine Jacobs was Smithsonian’s Chief Science...
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Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008
Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their...
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Link Love: 07/31/2020
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 Magazine...
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Archives Puzzles: Giving the People What They Want...An Exhibit Case about...
This summer, 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...
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Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator
Elizabeth Harmon, Digital Curator, Smithsonian Institution Archives As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rayna Green
Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.Now serving as curator emerita, Dr. Rayna Green...
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The World Is Yours: Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress
Kira Sobers Listen to reenactments of two articles that were published in the 1936 Smithsonian Annual Report as broadcast during The World Is Yours episode “Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific...
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Link Love: 8/07/2020
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.Catch up on the events of...
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Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial
Lynda Schmitz FuhrigThe Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.Today marks the anniversary of the founding of the Smithsonian on August 10, 1846, when...
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Archives Puzzles: Feeling Blue in the Windy City (But Only Because the Print...
This summer, 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...
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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Lupton
Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday. Ellen Lupton has been a curator of contemporary...
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Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris
We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain...
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