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Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support
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2017
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-270
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the website for the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary for Collections and Interdisciplinary Support as it existed on January 17, 2017. The website includes information about the office as well as collections and collaboration highlights. Due to technical issues, some data may be incomplete or missing in this ...
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
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2017
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-271
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the "Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors" exhibition pages on the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden website as it existed on March 2, 2017. The pages include information about the highly popular exhibition, including obtaining visitor passes. The exhibition ran from February 23 through May 14, 2017. Due to technical ...
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Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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1997-2000
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1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-266
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of materials created by the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, under the direction of Richard Kurin, director, 1990-2009, during the development and planning of the "America's Millennium" program held to mark not only the new year, but the end of the 20th century and the beginning ...
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
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2009-2016
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-268
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of one website and one blog maintained by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC). The primary SERC website was crawled on October 25, 2016, shortly after it was redesigned. It includes information about SERC's mission, facilities, research, and school and public programs. It also includes press releases a...
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Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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2017
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-269
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of two websites maintained by the Consortium for the Barcode of Life (CBOL), an international initiative devoted to developing DNA barcoding as a global standard for the identification of biological species since 2004, as they existed on February 21, 2017. The "Barcode of Life: Identifying Species with DNA Barcoding" w...
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National Air and Space Museum. Space History Department
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2004-2016
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1.5 cu. ft. (1 record storage box) (1 document box)
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- Accession 17-263
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of records created and maintained by Margaret A. Weitekamp, Curator, 2004- , documenting the development of exhibitions for the National Air and Space Museum and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Much of the documentation focuses on interactive and other educational components of the exhibitions. A smaller amount of...
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Smithsonian American Art Museum. Office of the Deputy Director
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FY 2007-FY 2011
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
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- Accession 17-265
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of materials which document the activities and the administration of the Smithsonian American Art Museum under the tenure of Deputy Director Rachel M. Allen (2002- ). Materials include correspondence and memoranda; reports; presentations; proposals; notes; and other administrative records detailing the Museum's relations ...
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Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876.
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1843-1877 and undated
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5.69 cu. ft. (10 document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7062
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
The collection consists of correspondence 1849-1876, mostly incoming, concerning specimens and geological observations; notebooks, 1846-1872 and diaries, 1871-1875, resulting from Meek's field work; manuscripts and original plate illustrations; and miscellaneous personal papers, including a catalogue of the Meek library made soon after hi...
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Smith, Neal Griffith, 1937-
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circa 1925-1995
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3 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-057
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of the research materials of Neal Griffith Smith (1937-2012), an ornithologist and tropical biologist who received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1963 and then spent his entire career working for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Particularly well documented is Smith's graduate research on Arctic...
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El-Baz, Farouk
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1927-2012
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88.891 cu. ft. (80 record storage boxes) (14 tall document boxes) (1 16x20 box)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 17-262
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Farouk El-Baz (1938- ) was born in Zagazig, Egypt. He received a B.S. in Chemistry and Geology in 1958 from Ain Shams University, Cairo. In 1960 he came to the United States, where he earned an M.S. in geology at the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy in 1961 and a Ph.D. in geology at the University of Missouri in 1964. After teaching ...