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Omo: Expressions of a People, Photographs by Drew Doggett
Finding Aid Now Available at the Eliot Elisofon Photographic ArchivesOmo aims to help viewers gain a greater visual understanding of the creative expressions of traditional peoples in Ethiopia and...
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Public anthropology and the Millennium film project: Cinema of Advocacy or...
During my summer internship at the National Anthropological Film Collection (formerly the Human Studies Film Archive) in the National Anthropological Archives. I worked on rehousing and processing the...
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August 1939: National Aviation Day and the 30th Anniversary of Army Aviation
August 19 marks National Aviation Day in the United States. Prior to 1939, aviation was frequently celebrated on December 17, the date of the Wright brothers’ first flight in 1903, and, in 1937,...
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Solar Eclipse Collections at the Smithsonian
Are you excited about the eclipse today? So are we! Over the centuries, people have long been fascinated by solar and lunar eclipses. The Smithsonian Institution has many eclipse related and inspired...
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Tribulus Troubles: Wildflowers in the Edward Palmer Papers at the National...
Although archives are best known for their well-organized and carefully-described materials, this TV-ready appearance belies a wealth of intellectual and physical labor by archivists. Behind the scenes...
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“My curiosity was stronger than my fear”: The Michiko Takaki Papers
It was 1964 when Michiko Takaki boarded a plane to take her from Tokyo to Manila to begin her ethnographic fieldwork. She was planning to spend one year among the Kalinga people of the northern Luzon...
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October is American Archives Month: The Power of Collaboration
Happy American Archives Month! To celebrate, the Smithsonian Collections blog is running its seventh annual blog-a-thon with blog posts every weekday in October. This year’s theme is the Power of...
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Before the National Portrait Gallery had a Building
Forty nine years ago this week the National Portrait Gallery held opening ceremonies at its new home in the former Patent Office Building. While you can visit their current home today, the National...
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Uncovering History with the Smithsonian Transcription Center
Since the Smithsonian Transcription Center launched in June of 2013, dedicated volunteers around the world have helped the Smithsonian transcribe more than 322,000 pages of materials like journals,...
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Throwback Thursday: Haskell Institute Football
Seven men from the 1930 Haskell football team posing for group portrait outside Hiawatha Hall on the Haskell Institute campus in Lawrence, Kansas. (National Museum of the American Indian, Archives,...
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Flashback Friday: Revisiting Zorn
Elayne Zorn spent many years and much of her professional career as a museum collector and anthropologist in the Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia. Although it was her interest in textiles and...
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A Summer with Helen
Joseph Garry and Helen Peterson at the NCAI Convention in Spokane, WA, 1955. National Congress of American Indian Records, Photo Folder 158. National Museum of the American Indian, Archive Center. As I...
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In the Heart of the Storm: The Resilience of Culture
This post originally appeared on September 19, 2017 in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's blog. In honor of October being American Archives Month, we republish it here as an example of how the...
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Collections Spotlight: Freer Gallery of Art
After being closed for more than a year, the Freer | Sackler is reopening this weekend. This closure has allowed the Freer | Sackler to completely reinstall all of their exhibitions and revitalize the...
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Throwback Thursday: Microfilm Memories
Man microfilming newspapers. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History.A “Throwback Thursday” seems like an ideal time to contemplate that quaint photographic...
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Flashback Friday: Lantern slides of the Florida Everglades
Lantern slide depicting Alanson Skinner's expedition to the Florida Everglades in 1910. National Museum of the American Indian, L00300.For Flashback Friday, let’s go to Florida in 1910. This...
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Bryson Jones’ Deep South Travelogue: A Glimpse into Tourism’s Impact on...
As a summer intern at the National Anthropological Film Collection (formerly known as the Human Studies Film Archives) in the National Anthropological Archives I digitized clips from the documentary...
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Come Join Us at the 2017 Archives Fair!
As an archivist, ethnomusicologist, and musician working at the Smithsonian, I feel inspired when I have opportunities to work with colleagues within and beyond the Institution to provide public-facing...
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Changing The Narrative of History: The Enduring Value of Community...
The pursuit of social justice is an important part of NMAI’s mission, and we work towards it in many ways. The most visible means of addressing issues of prejudice, racism, and injustice are public...
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Throwback Thursday: October 19, 1923
Young Austin H. Clark, 1910. Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image Number SIA2007-0009. On October 19th, 1923 local Washington, DC radio station WRC, of the Radio Corporation of America, began...
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