William C. Sturtevant papers
This collection contains the professional papers of William Curtis Sturtevant and documents his activities as Curator of North American Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History, his work as the editor-in-chief of the Handbook of North American Indians, his research among the Seminole and Iroquois people, and other professional activities. The collection is comprised of books, sound recordings, research and field notes, realia, artifacts, clippings, microfilm, negatives, slides, photographs, manuscripts, correspondence, memorandums, card files, exhibition catalogs, articles, and bibliographies.
Robinson and Via Family Papers
bulk 1872-1985
Papers documenting the farming and family life of the Robinson family of Prince George's County and after 1975, Charles County, Maryland. Papers documenting the farming and family of the Via family of Greene County, Virginia, Washington, D.C., Prince George's and Calvert Counties, Maryland, by 1949.
Website Records
This accession consists of 18 Facebook accounts maintained by individual units throughout the Smithsonian Institution. Facebook is a third-party social networking site used for interaction with the general public. The accounts were captured between November 29, 2016, and March 12, 2018. A few accounts were downloaded using Facebook's "archive" feature. Due to technical issues, the …
Records
These records primarily document the administration of the NMNH during the tenures of Kier, Fiske, and Hoffman. A small amount of files were created by Talbot, and Acting Directors James F. Mello, 1979, and James C. Tyler, 1985 and 1988. The records document the research, exhibition, and educational missions of the NMNH. They …
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 …
Records
This record unit consists of administrative records maintained by Charles A. Lundquist as assistant director (Science), which primarily concern SAO scientific projects. Projects represented in the records include the Satellite Tracking Program, Celescope Project, Gravitational Redshift Space Probe Experiment, Hydrogen Maser Program, Very Long Baseline Interferometer (VLBI), Earth Albedo Project …
Website Records
This accession consists of records documenting Twitter accounts maintained throughout the Smithsonian Institution (SI). Twitter is a third-party site used for public micro-blogging by SI staff. In addition to general SI-wide accounts this accession includes accounts maintained by individual museums and administrative and programmatic units across the Institution. Each of …
Website Records
This accession consists of 29 YouTube accounts maintained by units throughout the Smithsonian Institution. The accounts were crawled between March 5 and August 16, 2019, but may contain significantly older content. YouTube is a video-sharing service that many museums, research centers, and programmatic offices use for disseminating informational, educational, and promotional videos. Some of …
Clippings
These records consist entirely of newspaper clippings concerning the Smithsonian Institution. Arrangement generally follows an alphabetic file plan. Clippings concerning the Sea-Link submarine disaster, the Smithson Bicentennial, and, in recent years, the Festival of American Folklife, were kept separately, but have been combined here with the main body of clippings …
Records
This accession consists of records that document the work of the Office of Environmental Management and Safety and its predecessors during the period from 1972 to 1991. Most of the records deal with efforts to monitor and control levels of pollutants such as lead, formaldehyde, asbestos, and various industrial chemicals through the …
