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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Smithsonian Institution"”.
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A museum of history and technology for the Smithsonian Institution
Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1957.
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An American institution: the Smithsonian, 1846-1878
In 1846, Congress created the Smithsonian Institution. Congressmen expected the Institution to advance the cause of American science as did Joseph Henry, the organization's first secretary. The Institution fulfilled that role in a manner consistent with its congressional mandate. Henry, however, …
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Science Under Siege: Joseph Henry's Smithsonian, 1846--1865
This study traces the development of the Smithsonian Institution from its beginning in 1846 to the end of the Civil War in 1865. As the leading antebellum patron of the natural, physical, and social sciences in the United States, the Smithsonian exerted great force on the shape of the American …
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Variations in shell form in the gastropod genus Diodora
Recent specimens of the genus Diodora from the Smithsonian Institution Mollusc Collection were examined for the neontological portion of this study. Species included were D. cayenensis, D. listeri, D. sayi, and D. tanneri. Fifty eight measurements were made on each specimen and recorded with …
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The path to prominence: Nationalism and the Library of Congress, 1835-1897
… nationalism provided the impetus to build an institution that preserved, symbolized, and spread national thought and ideals. Five major congressional acts made the Library of Congress the national library. The expansion of the Library's rooms in the Capitol (1865), the transfer of the …
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A Plan for Managing the Alexander Graham Bell-Joseph Henry Rare Book Collection in the Smithsonian’s Dibner Library
… Collection, housed at the Dibner Library at the Smithsonian Institution, comprises the two scientists’ private libraries and was donated to the Smithsonian Libraries by Bell’s family in 1970s.</p> <p>The prominence of both Bell and Henry in the 19th century history of science and the close …
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Visualizing the Cherokee Homeland through Indigenous Historical GIS: An Interactive Map of James Mooney's Ethnographic Fieldwork and Cherokee Collective Memory
… were recently discovered at the archive of the Smithsonian Institution. For this thesis, I combine Mooney's work with Cherokee collective memory to re-interpret the stories of the Cherokee homeland according to Duyuktv, a Cherokee theoretical framework and paradigm. Asking the question, "How can …
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A Paradigm Shift in African Cultural Exhibits at the National Museum of Natural History
As the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution echoes American identity and promotes U.S. values. In a 1999 article, From Dioramas to Dialogics: A Century of Exhibiting African at the Smithsonian, anthropology curator, Mary Jo Arnoldi stated that the 1967 Cultures of Africa exhibit in the …
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Prophet singer: the voice and vision of Woody Guthrie
… this work comes from archival collections at the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the Woody Guthrie Archives, I have covered a wider variety of materials concerning Guthrie than ever done before, thus providing new insights into one of America's most intriguing cultural …
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Power to the People: A Comprehensive Look at Crowdsourcing Initiatives in Cultural Institutions
… restraints. Through crowdsourcing, cultural institutions have the ability to outsource these tasks to volunteers, who can complete them at much faster rates. Although staff members are needed to validate and supervise these projects, crowdsourcing remains a useful tool in increasing public …
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An Analysis of Marcel Breuer's Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library
… Archive, New York, the Archive of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. and the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library, West Virginia. With this thesis my goal is to contribute to the scholarship on Marcel Breuer and to place this previously unanalyzed building in the context of …
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Using diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis to determine age at death
… Using the Terry Collection, housed at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, 1728 human skeletons of known age at death were analyzed looking for evidence of spinal DISH. Found in 94 individuals, the level of DISH was scored and measured. The measurements taken …
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The Shape of Kubler: George A. Kubler in Peru, 1948-49
… the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution and teaching a seminar on the use of archival sources in ethnology at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima; during this time, Kubler also engaged in the construction of an archive of his own. Drawing from …
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Digital Docent: An Analysis of Accessibility in the Digital Music Space
… what an in-person exhibit can offer. In 2010, Smithsonian created a comprehensive document on accessible museum exhibition design, created to cover every aspect of any given exhibit. Through this document, there became a standardized level of accessibility for museum exhibits to meet, and I …
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Long-Term Assessments Of Some Vessel-Source Marine Pollutants
… Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, Smithsonian Institution for Short-Lived Phenomena and the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
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The Social History of a National Collection: Anthropology, Repatriation and the Politics of Identity
… history of an anthropological collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Combining archival and historical research with interviews, I trace the Army Medical Museum (AMM) collection from its origin in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The Smithsonian's AMM collection is the product of …
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Imperial recollections: The colonial contexts and postcolonial predicaments of exhibiting Native American cultures and histories in the contemporary United States
… American culture. Third, while individuals and institutions have increasingly challenged and modified the stories told about Native America, these reformulations have largely reproduced or recuperated the structures and sentiments central to previous renditions. Exhibitionary spaces continue to …
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Low Risk, High Threat, Open Access Security in a Post 9-11 World: A Study of the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Protection Services
… research is to look at one of these targets, the Smithsonian Institution and how the Smithsonian Institution's Office of Protection Services (SI OPS) responded to the terror attacks of 9-11 and the ongoing threat. Four factors will be examined: (1) the screening process, (2) the budget, (3) the …
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Use of Noninvasive Methods to Document the Characteristics of Sewing Thread Used in US Women's Dress Ensembles From 1880 to 1909
… selected using a convenience sampling from the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, in Washington, DC, and The Valentine Museum in Richmond, Virginia. A total of 417 observations were collected from 39 garments. Noninvasive procedures were used to examine late nineteenth …
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Dynamical stability of aeroplanes (with three plates)
Thesis: Sc. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautical Engineering, 1916.
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