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Housed in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries’ Research Annex in Landover, Maryland, the ALM Collection is a growing body of largely grey literature in the form of government manuals, reports, studies, and surveys capturing the history and evolution of civil aviation. SIL exhibition: Picturing Words, the Power of Book Illustration. [24]
The Smithsonian Institution began publishing consolidated compilations of quarto-sized papers in 1848, under the name Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. [1] In 1862 octavo-sized papers called Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections were added, [1] followed by the monographic Bulletin of the United States National Museum in 1875, [1] and the compiled Proceedings of the United States National ...
He was an assistant Curator of ornithology from 1894 to 1897 at the Chicago Natural History Museum, [3] as the Field Museum was then called. He took part in about forty expeditions, mostly to Central and South America, including Theodore Roosevelt 's South American Expedition of 1913–1914, when Cherrie was collecting specimens for the ...
History By Contract reviews evidence and material available in two earlier books about Whitehead by Randolph and added statements and affidavits from self-described witnesses to Whitehead flights. [2] O'Dwyer alleged that secrecy and denial by the Smithsonian kept the agreement with the Wright estate from public knowledge for years.
Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1823. [3] His mother was a member of the prominent Philadelphia Biddle family; he was a nephew of Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate Charles B. Penrose and a first cousin, once removed, of U.S. Senator Boies Penrose and his distinguished brothers, Richard, Spencer, and Charles.
Roger D. Launius (born May 15, 1954) is an American historian and author of Lithuanian descent, a former chief historian of NASA.He retired in 2016 as Associate Director for Collections and Curatorial Affairs for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. [1] Launius is a consulting historian in air and space history.
At the age of 27, Smillie started for the Smithsonian as a staff photographer using different photographic techniques to document the Smithsonian's daily operation, its exhibitions and people. [3] In 1890, Louisa Bernie Gallaher was transferred to his photographic department after Smillie had noticed her photography skills. Gallaher became his ...
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