Oral history interview with Anton Blazek
McGlynn, Betty Hoag
New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
Blazek speaks of his childhood in Baltimore; early art and music training; commercial art; ceramics; working with aluminum; his move to Los Angeles; works completed for federal projects; his paintings of California missions; the lack of government censorship; and the value of federal projects. He recalls David Ebstrom, Lorser Feitelson …
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This accession consists of the "Global Tree Banding Project" website as it existed on December 19, 2017, and May 1, 2018. The website documents the Smithsonian Institution's Global Tree Banding Project which originated within the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center but became part of a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution, TakingITGlobal, and Microsoft Partners in …
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This accession consists of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute's (STRI) Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) website as it existed on February 28, 2018, and again on April 19, 2018, shortly after it was redesigned. ForestGEO is a multi-institutional program that builds on and expands STRI's global network of forest plots, transforming it into a …
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Permanent Administrative Files
Records prior to 1907 consist mostly of incoming correspondence (outgoing correspondence can be found in record unit 112). After 1907 the records contain both incoming and outgoing correspondence. Much of the material consists of routine public inquiries. In addition, these records document museum accessions and Smithsonian expeditions and field trips. Other topics include …
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This accession consists of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO)/United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrophysics Data System (ADS) website as it existed on January 22, 2013. This website is a digital library portal for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by SAO under a NASA grant. This accession does …
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This accession consists of a web form available from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) for producing ionization and recombination curves as it existed on May 17, 2017. CfA is jointly administered by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. Due to technical issues, the program may not function properly …
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This accession consists of the Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystems Program website as it existed on May 29, 2013. The website includes information about the program, its projects, and its Carrie Bow Cay Field Station in Belize as well as information for visiting scientists. The program is administered by the Smithsonian Marine Station …
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This accession consists of two websites maintained by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. The museum's primary website was crawled on February 10, 2017. It includes information about the museum and its educational programs, exhibitions, and events. It also includes a blog which launched in December 2006. The collection database website was crawled …
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This accession consists of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Consortium (BHL) Twitter account as it existed on February 7, 2017. BHL is a consortium of major natural history, botanical, and research libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the literature of biodiversity held in their collections as a part of a global …
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This accession consists of the Smithsonian Organization and Audience Research website as it existed on November 21, 2017. The website includes information about the office and the services it provides as well as information about current projects and reports from completed projects. Materials are in electronic format.
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