Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume (Website)
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Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2016-2018
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of three websites maintained by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES).
The SITES archives website, crawled July 31, 2018, includes content that no longer exists on their active website. The homepage replicates an older version of the website.
When content still exists on the active website, links will take users to the active content. When content no longer exists on the active website, links will take users to
the content within the archives website. This accession does not include the content on the active website.
The "Museum on Main Street" website, crawled August 6, 2018, helps bring the Smithsonian Institution to small towns across America. The website includes information about
traveling exhibitions as well as educational resources and docent handbooks for each exhibition. The website also includes guides for creating oral histories and exhibitions.
In addition, a blog is hosted on the website. Launched in May 2016, the blog features Smithsonian-related activities conducted in local communities.
The "Rebel, Jedi, Princess, Queen: Star Wars and the Power of Costume" website, crawled August 6, 2018, includes information about the traveling exhibition of the same
name, including previews, family activities, and links to related resources.
This accession consists of four websites maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO). SAO, with the Harvard College Observatory, jointly administers
the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA).
The John G. Wolbach Library website, crawled September 4, 2018, provides information about the Library's collections and services. Detailed collection information is not
included in this accession.
The Package for Interactive Analysis of Line Emission (PINTofALE) website, crawled on September 12, 2018, consists of documentation of software tools developed to analyze
spectroscopic data from optically-thin coronal plasmas. The software itself is not included in this accession.
The software website for the CfA High Energy Astrophysics Division, crawled on September 18, 2018, serves as a portal to the Division's available software, located on several
other websites.
The SAO/United States, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrophysics Data System (ADS) website, crawled September 18, 2018, is a digital library portal
for researchers in astronomy and physics, operated by SAO under a NASA grant. This accession does not include the bibliographic data.
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2018
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the GitHub account of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSG) as it existed on May 17, 2018. The account provides FSG
with a space to share open-source technologies developed in-house. This accession consists of informational pages but does not include the downloadable software. Materials
are in electronic format.
This accession consists of the United States National Museum Geometridae section of the Department of Entomology website as it existed on June 18, 2018. The section
allows users to browse information about the geometridae moth collections of the National Museum of Natural History, formerly part of the United States National Museum. In
addition, this accession also includes files for the website that were transferred directly from the web server. Materials are in electronic format.
Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement. Smithsonian Women's Committee Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2018
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the Smithsonian Craft2Wear website as it existed on July 31, 2018, two months before the 2018 event. The website publicizes one of the Smithsonian
Women's Committee's two annual juried craft show fund raisers. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of the Scientific Collections International (SciColl) website as it existed on July 18, 2018. The mission of SciColl is to increase the return
on investment that countries and institutions make in their scientific collections by catalyzing international and interdisciplinary collaboration. The SciColl Secretariat
is hosted at the Smithsonian Institution. The website includes information about SciColl and its research initiatives and events. Due to technical issues, some images may
be missing from this accession. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of the American Women's History Initiative website as it existed on June 5, 2018. The initiative uses technology to amplify a diversity of women's
voices throughout the Smithsonian Institution's many museums, research centers, cultural heritage affiliates, and online audiences. The website provides information about
the initiative as well as the stories of contributions made by individual women. It also highlights objects in the collections. Due to technical issues, some interactive features
in this accession may not function as expected. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of the "My Armenia Cultural Heritage Tourism Program" website as it existed on June 28, 2018, shortly after the website was first launched.
The My Armenia Program works to increase and share knowledge about Armenian cultural heritage and to build capacity to support the long-term vitality of Armenian cultural
sites and practices. It is a collaborative program between Armenia, the United States Agency for International Development, and the Smithsonian Institution. The website provides
information about Armenian culture and tourism. It is hosted by the Smithsonian Institution and available in both English and Armenian. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of the National Postal Museum website as it existed on July 31, 2018. It includes information about the museum and its exhibitions, collections,
research, events, and educational resources. It also includes online exhibitions. Detailed collection information is not included in this accession. Due to technical issues,
some features of this crawled website may not function as expected. Materials are in electronic format.
This accession consists of two websites maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as they existed on August 22, 2018. The Harvard-Smithsonian Center
for Astrophysics is jointly administered by the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory.
The "Aesthetics and Astronomy" website documents a project of the same name which studies the perception of multi-wavelength astronomical imagery and the effects of the
scientific and artistic choices in processing astronomical data. The website documents the project and its findings.
"LIGHT: Beyond the Bulb" is an open-source international exhibition program that showcases the incredible variety of light-based science being researched today across the
electromagnetic spectrum, across scientific disciplines, and across technological platforms. The Chandra X-ray Observatory and SPIE, the international society for optics and
photonics, are jointly leading the program in conjunction with the International Astronomical Union for the International Year of Light 2015. The website includes information
about the program and about creating or hosting an exhibition as well as an image collection.
Correspondence and files relating to several art projects planned for the public relations programs of industries and museums, particularly Nathan's work with Towle Manufacturing and its gallery, the Smithsonian Institution, and the Archives of American Art.
1973 DONATION (1.0 ft.): Correspondence and project files for various clients. Of note are two photographs of Jasper Johns, and one each of Mark Rothko and Tony Smith, all taken by Hans Namuth, 1960.
ADDITION: Files relating to Nathan's work as public relations consultant for the silver company,Towle Manufacturing and its gallery, (ca.1951-ca.1957), include photographs of exhibits, silversmiths at work and Towle executives, as well as correspondence, writings, notes on silversmithing and its history, and newsletters. Files relating to Nathan's work at the Smithsonian Institution's museums and exhibitions, 1960's-ca. 1985, consist of subject files, clippings, catalogs, articles, press releases, newsletters, and reports. Publicity files also cover the opening of the National Portrait Gallery and its inaugural exhibition. Nathan's work for the Archives of American Art, from its first becoming a bureau of the Smithsonian in 1970, is documented through subject files, membership lists, reports to trustees and the director, newsletters, clippings, catalogs, budgets and statistics. Correspondence consists of letters to Georgia O'Keeffe regarding a pending oral history with the sculptors Dorothy Dehner and David Smith. The majority of the photographs are of personalities long associated with the Archives of American Art.
Letter from museum administrator and lecturer daniel Catton Rich expresses his pleasure at having met Jannis and Zoe Spyropoulous in Athens, Greece and describes the painting by Jannis that he purchased for the Worcester Art Museum.
Also found are interviews conducted by Nathan for Radio Smithsonian, including an interview of New York, N.Y. cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg (1883-1970) conducted in 1970 (Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette tape. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 1 hr., 39 min.; 33 p. transcript; an interview of art historian and writer Richard B. K. McLanathan , 1970; an interview of the Director of the Archives of American Art William E. Woolfenden conducted in 1970, an interview of Abram Lerner, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, and art collector Joseph Hirshhorn, 1969 (sound cassette); Also found is an interview of William Woolfenden by Nathan conducted May 6, 1983 upon his retirement as Director of the Archives of American Art.
Also found is a folder of material assembled by Nathan regarding Jose de Creeft's story, as told to Nathan, of his pet rooster, intended by Nathan to be submitted for publication under the title "Roosty Was My Friend." Included are an introduction by Nathan, providing biographical information on de Creeft; sample text for the story (2 pages) and an outline for the remainder (3 pages), 24 drawings by de Creeft illustrating the story; and a photograph of de Creeft with a wire sculpture of Roosty, 1957, taken by Budd studio.
Biographical / Historical:
Emily Nathan was a public relations consultant and journalist, had many contacts in the art world. De Creeft was a sculptor; born 1884 in Spain. He eventually settled in New York. He died in 1982.
Public relations consultant and journalist.
Provenance:
Donated 1973-1988 by Emily Nathan and in 2000 by the Emily Nathan estate, via Edgar S. Nathan, III, executor. The letter to Nathan from Daniel Catton Rich was donated by Rich, 1977.
Restrictions:
Use of original papers requires an appointment and is limited to the Archives' Washington, D.C., Research Center. Contact Reference Services for more information.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2010-2013
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of a blog and a website maintained by Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings as they existed on August 4, 2013.
The Smithsonian Folkways Tumblr account highlighted recordings from its collections, often tied to anniversaries or special events. The first post to the blog was in March
2010. In January 2012, a post noted that the account would no longer be updated.
The "Performed Words" website allows the public to listen to recorded, living performances and hear the performer's voices speaking and singing with their own tone, rhythm
and nuance. Due to technical issues, this accession only includes the non-Flash version of the website.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2013
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings website as it existed on December 27, 2013. Folkways is the non-profit recording label of the Smithsonian
Institution, dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. The
website includes information about the program, educational resources, and podcasts as well as an online version of "Smithsonian Folkways Magazine." This accession does not
include audio tracks. Materials are in electronic format.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2012
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the website for Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings as it existed on April 2, 2012. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is the non-profit recording
label of the Smithsonian Institution, dedicated to supporting cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination
of sound. The website includes information about the program, educational resources, and podcasts as well as an online version of "Smithsonian Folkways Magazine." Materials
are in electronic format.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2011
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the main website of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as it existed between July 7 and 11, 2011. The website includes information
about the Center, its research initiatives, and its archival collections as well as online exhibitions and electronic versions of the newsletter, "Talk Story." Online exhibitions
include "Waterways: Mid-Atlantic Maritime Communities;" "Forest Service, Culture, and Community;" "Navigating the Mekong;" "Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Culture in the
Americas;" "Borders/Fronteras;" and "Lu'au: A Hawaiian Feast." Materials are in electronic format.
Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Web sites
Date:
2010-2013
Descriptive Entry:
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 dating as early as June 2010. Due to technical issues, much of the video was not
properly captured.
The Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage website, crawled on July 31, 2013, includes information about the Center, its research initiatives, and its archival collections.
It also includes online exhibitions and electronic versions of the newsletter, "Talk Story."
The Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings website as it existed on August 4, 2013. Folkways is the non-profit recording label of the Smithsonian Institution, dedicated to supporting
cultural diversity and increased understanding among peoples through the documentation, preservation, and dissemination of sound. The website includes information about the
program, educational resources, and podcasts as well as an online version of "Smithsonian Folkways Magazine." This accession does not include audio tracks and, due to technical
issues, much of the video was not properly captured.
Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum Search this
Extent:
0.52 cu. ft. (26 microfilm reels)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Microfilms
Date:
1885-1907
Descriptive Entry:
These records consist of correspondence from the United States National Museum to persons who sent in specimens for examination. People represented in the records include
Richard Rathbun, Frederick William True, G. Brown Goode, and Charles D. Walcott. Most correspondence is signed by subordinate officials. A volume list follows.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 114, Smithsonian Institution, Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, Specimen Records
