Smithsonian Institution. SIRIS Members Group Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Electronic records
Date:
2012-2014
Descriptive Entry:
This accession consists of the "Smithsonian Collections Blog" as it existed on July 16, 2014. The blog highlights the hidden treasures from over 2 million collections
by bringing together archivists, museum specialists, and librarians from around the Smithsonian Institution to write about new collections, current works in progress, or other
interesting materials in order to highlight collections, unveil hidden collections as they come online, and relate to current events with historical artifacts, art work and
research materials from the past. The blog opened in March 2012. Materials are in electronic format.
This manuscript was apparently Gronberger's doctoral dissertation on European and Asiatic species in Greenland from the eighteenth century until the date of writing.
Historical Note:
Sven M. Gronberger (1866-1916), born and educated in Sweden, moved to the United States and joined the library staff of the Smithsonian in 1907. He published a number
of papers on ornithology and had almost completed the requirements for his Ph.D. in zoology and geology at the time of his death.
Folder 1 Correspondence from Lloyd H. Shinners concerning the publication of his magazine SIDA; plants collected by him for the Southern Methodist University Herbarium; his writings; and personal matters (1965-1970)
Folder 1 Robert Wohl, and miscellaneous papers. Includes Wohl application for NASM Verville fellowship, 1989; Wohl's Curriculum Vitae and writing samples; and the introduction to a working manuscript, titled Par la Voie des Airs; How Aviation Entered t...
Collection Creator::
National Air and Space Museum. Department of Aeronautics Search this
Container:
Box 5 of 6
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 93-042, National Air and Space Museum. Department of Aeronautics, Exhibition Records
"Letters to the National Institute, June 1, 1839, to December 17, 1843," bound volume; incoming correspondence, arranged chronologically; primarily relating to organization of the National Institute and to its efforts to write a chain of correspondents...
3.43 cu. ft. (3 record storage boxes) (1 12x17 box)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Audiotapes
Color photographs
Black-and-white photographs
Clippings
Manuscripts
Place:
Fort Gordon (Ga.)
Date:
1947-1995 and undated
Descriptive Entry:
Included in this collection are articles, reports, notebooks, photographs, slides, and certificates and awards. There is very little personal correspondence, but papers
written by Zisfein contained in this collection seem to represent some of his major writings. Of special note are 15 notebooks kept by Zisfein at NASM, which contain notes
concerning exhibition concepts, planning, budgets, and schedules; museum policy, meetings, and agendas; and other professional activities. Also of note are a large number
of photographic slides which depict the new NASM building and exhibition installations. Zisfein organized the slides into nine books, but books four to seven are missing from
this accession.
Historical Note:
Melvin B. Zisfein (1926-1995) received Aeronautical Engineering degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (B.S., 1948; M.S., 1948). He worked at various
companies as a designer and aerodynamicist from 1948 to 1953, including Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. He joined Bell Aircraft Corporation in 1953 as the Chief of the Dynamics
Department. In 1960 Zisfein became General Manager of the Astromechanics Research Division of Giannini Controls Corporation until 1966, when he became Associate Director of
the Franklin Institute Research Laboratories. From 1971 to 1982 he was at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) as Deputy Director (1971-1982) and also as Acting Director
(1978), where he was instrumental in the planning, construction and design of the new NASM building which opened in 1976. In 1982 Zisfein became the first Director of the
Army Discovery Center at the National Science Center in Fort Gordon, Georgia. He retired in 1988 but continued to teach as Adjunct Professor at Augusta College (Georgia) until
1990.
National Museum of Natural History. Assistant Director for Automatic Data Processing Search this
Container:
Box 10 of 15
Type:
Archival materials
Collection Citation:
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 95-169, National Museum of Natural History. Assistant Director for Automatic Data Processing, Program Records
