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Favorite Photograph From Archives Center Collections
Arthur d'Arzien, Celanese Corporation, Bishop, Texas, ca. 1960s. Color transparency.Arthur d'Arazien Industrial Photographs, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. AC0314-0000049.For...
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Pioneering Women Photographers in Africa, 1930s-1970s
We are excited to announce a major project the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, is starting: In support of the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative, we...
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The Spanish Flu
This year marks the 100 year anniversary of the World War I armistice. While many will remember this year as the end of the First World War, many may not realize that this is also the centennial...
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Adventures in Description and Discovery: Who was Miss Mix?
Smithsonian Libraries was digitizing a book to make available online. While reviewing the book’s description (the MARC encoded catalog record) to check for any errors, a question came up about the...
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Flashback Friday: Behind the Scenes at the Cultural Resources Center
Smithsonian Institution Archives, image number 2003-37857. Family Day at the National Museum of the American Indian, Cultural Resources Center, October 25, 2003. Visitors tour the center and view the...
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Voting Rights and Archives Center Collections
The fraught history of Southern states denying African Americans the right to vote, a right guaranteed by the 15th Amendment, was a practice that extended through the first half of the 20th century....
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Representing and Misrepresenting Native Americans in Archival Collections
The bulk of historical materials contained in Native American archival collections were not created by Native peoples. Perhaps this is obvious. Historic photographs, anthropological field-notes,...
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Farewell to American Archives Month 2018
As the American Archives Month blog-a-thon comes to end on this Halloween Day, we want to send a thank you to everyone who participated. We hope you enjoyed learning about the work we do as archivists,...
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Pioneering Women Photographers in Africa: Constance Stuart Larrabee
Constance Stuart with Ndebele men, South Africa, circa 1936-1945,EEPA 1998-060866The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives (EEPA) is pleased to share the Constance Stuart Larrabee collection. One of...
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American Women's Role as Collectors, Patrons, and Museum Founders
As collectors, patrons, and museum founders, American women have played an influential role in national and international art circles from the late nineteenth century until today. With the rise of...
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Searching for Oldman: Museum Collaboration Across the Globe
Since 2010, a project has been underway at the National Museum of the American Indian to reunite archival records with our collections and reconstruct the provenance, or record of ownership, of...
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Pioneering Women Photographers in Africa: Natalie Knight and Suzanne Priebatsch
Ndebele bride wearing beaded neck and leg rings, South Africa, circa 1977-circa 1983, EEPA 2012-010-0100The Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives (EEPA) is pleased to share the Natalie Knight and...
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Connecting Archives and Artifacts: Year Two of the Ralph S. and Rose L....
Year two of the Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Papers and Artifacts Project is underway! In the upcoming weeks, you’ll hear from three Solecki Project interns about how the Solecki Project Team...
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Reuniting a Collection: The Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Collection Storage...
Time has flown by as I have been interning with NMNH Anthropology Collections for the fall 2018 semester. Interning with Molly Kamph on the Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Papers and Artifacts Project has...
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Pioneering Women Photographers in Africa: Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson
Marvin Breckinridge filming at Great Zimbabwe ruins, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1932, photograph by Olivia Stokes, EEPA 1985-009-0050In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’ve searched our archives to...
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The Shanidar III Neanderthal: A Mousterian Murder Mystery
The Shanidar III Neanderthal skeleton was uncovered on April 16, 1957 by paleo-archaeologist Ralph Solecki after a local laborer noted the presence of bone during the third season of excavations at the...
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Excavations at Zawi Chemi Shanidar: An Example of Human Innovation
Ralph Solecki’s discovery of Neanderthal burials at Shanidar Cave in Iraq changed the way that anthropologists understand Neanderthal culture. What many may not know is that during those years...
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Pioneering Women Photographers in Africa: Marilyn Houlberg
This blog post about Marilyn Houlberg continues the series about our Pioneering Women Photographers in Africaproject. The following post was written by Dr. Peter Haffner, a post-doc fellow at the...
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Discovering Culture in the Shanidar Cave Neanderthals
Often, Neanderthals are thought of as a robust and brutish distant relative of modern humans. With their stout features and receding foreheads, the similarities between them and us seem scant at first,...
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Announcing the Launch of Transcription Center Sound Projects
We are excited to officially announce the Transcription Center’s (TC) latest feature—transcription projects of digitized audio recordings from around the Smithsonian!The inclusion of sound into the...
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