Website Records
This accession consists of the "American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music" website as it existed on January 21, 2014. It accompanies a traveling exhibition of the same name which began touring in early 2011. The website includes an online version of the exhibition, information about the exhibition, educational activities, and a blog …
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Remington Kellogg Papers
The main body of the collection consists of Kellogg's personal incoming and outgoing correspondence with fellow zoologists and geologists regarding research in zoology and marine geologic formations. A significant amount of correspondence with institutions also exists, notably with the Bureau of Biological Survey, the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and the …
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Website Records
This accession consists of the page from the National Museum of African American History and Culture's website containing a video of the grand opening dedication ceremony. The web page was crawled on April 23, 2018, but the video documents the events from September 24, 2016. Materials are in electronic format.
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Curatorial Records
This accession consists of records that document the acquisition of a bell to be hung in the north tower of the Smithsonian Building in 1996 during the 1996 celebration of the Smithsonian Institution sesquicentennial. The bell was manufactured by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry in London, England. David Shayt, a Museum Specialist in …
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Conservation of Endangered Species Videohistory Collection
The Smithsonian Videohistory Program, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation from 1986 until 1992, used video in historical research. Additional collections have been added since the grant project ended. Videohistory uses the video camera as a historical research tool to record moving visual information. Video works best in historical research when …
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Oral history interview with Samuel M. Kootz
Morse, John D., 1906-
An interview of Samuel M. Kootz conducted 1960 Mar. 2, by John Morse, for the Archives of American Art.
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Space Surveillance Fence Program Collection
The Navy Space Surveillance System (NavSpaSur) was developed between 1958 and 1964 by the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) for the detection and tracking of foreign satellites. Operated by the United States Navy from 1961-2004 and thereafter by the US Air Force until its decommissioning in 2013, the system (known as the Space Fence) had three transmitting sites and six receiving stations across the southern United States. Its radar signals detected active satellites and larger pieces of space debris passing through them at altitudes up to 15,000 miles and helped determine their orbital elements. An improved space surveillance radar on Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific entered service in 2020.
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Website Records
This accession consists of 39 Instagram accounts maintained by units throughout the Smithsonian Institution. The accounts were crawled between May 23 and July 10, 2019. One account was also captured using Instagram's download feature. Instagram is a program for applying filters to digital photographs and sharing photographs online. Due to technical issues, the crawls …
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Website Records
This accession consists of the Facebook account of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project as it existed on January 28, 2019. The Project's mission is to rescue and establish assurance colonies of amphibian species that are in extreme danger of extinction throughout Panama. The National Zoological Park and the Smithsonian Tropical …
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Website Records
This accession consists of three websites maintained by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. The Smithsonian Folklife Festival website, crawled on July 18, 2013, provides information about the 2013 Festival and background information about each of the featured programs. It also contains historical information about the Festival and a blog, with posts …
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