14 10 274 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/998ea568e48afa10b5f62c543d0521df.jpg 9e5bc9afba7dbcc6ed1a43bd69576b6e Person An individual. Name Washington, Martha Birth Date 1731 Death Date 1802 Birthplace Chestnut Grove, VA Deathplace Mount Vernon, VA Occupation First lady, dignitary Biographical Text Washington was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered to be the first First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime she was often referred to as "Lady Washington". Authority Source authority source <a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80072514.html">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80072514.html</a> Source <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Martha Washington dignitary first lady women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/dacbf1ffc475dad011b3f1c561ee32a6.jpg 588515bd5fa061280ca7ec9e55db2b75 Person An individual. Name Lewis, Nelly Custis Authority Source authority source <a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/n82084637">https://lccn.loc.gov/n82084637</a> Birth Date 1779 Death Date 1852 Birthplace Mount Airy, MD or Abingdon, VA (current Arlington, VA) Deathplace "Audley", Clarke County, VA Occupation dignitary Biographical Text She known as Nelly, was the granddaughter of Martha Washington and the step-granddaughter of George Washington. Following the premature death of her farther in 1781, Nelly and her brother, George Washington Parke Custis, were informally adopted by the Washingtons, and grew up at Mount Vernon. During George Washington's presidency, Nelly helped entertain guests at the first presidential mansion on Cherry Street in New York City, the second presidential mansion on Broadway in New York City, and the third presidential mansion in Philadelphia. The talented and beautiful young woman often accompanied her grandparents to social events. Source <a class="in-cell-link" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Parke_Custis_Lewis" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Parke_Custis_Lewis</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Nelly Custis Lewis dignitary women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/a6aa51dd5d0fff7c3917ab2ef39c14f1.jpeg 6fc50d3762da01e6fb2563d9af52cfa5 Person An individual. Birth Date March, 1822 Birthplace Dorchester County, MD Death Date March 10, 1913 Occupation Civil War; nurse; suffragist; civil rights; activist Biographical Text Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War. Born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue approximately seventy enslaved families and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. She later helped abolitionist John Brown recruit men for his raid on Harpers Ferry, and in the post-war era was an active participant in the struggle for women's suffrage. Source <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman</a> Name Tubman, Harriet Authority Source authority source <a href="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79106623.html">http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79106623.html</a> Deathplace Auburn, NY Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Harriet Tubman activist african american civil rights civil war nurse suffragist women https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/3603ebfd47c2aca37e722cf1e2b66da5.jpg 053fc28201643a5e8681701888ff195b Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://library.si.edu/libraries/dibner-library-history-science-and-technology">Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution Libraries</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1218/#geolocation">12th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC, 20001</a> <a>+1 (202) 633-3872</a> <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Adibnerlibrary@si.edu%E2%80%9D">dibnerlibrary@si.edu</a> Description The Dibner Library is the Smithsonian’s collection of rare books and manuscripts relating to the history of science and technology. Contained in this world-class collection of 35,000 rare books and 2,000 manuscript groups are many of the most important works dating from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries in the history of science and technology including engineering, transportation, chemistry, mathematics, physics, electricity, and astronomy. The approximately 10,000 volumes of rare books and the 1,600 manuscript groups in science and technology donated by the Burndy Library form the core of the Dibner Library's collection. Over the years the collection has been supplemented by the Smithsonian's own holdings and gifts from individuals and institutions and now numbers some 35,000 rare books and 1,800 manuscript groups. The Library's holdings are contained within and searchable via the Smithsonian Libraries' online catalog, SIRIS. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution Libraries 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century books District of Columbia electricity engineering library manuscripts mathematics museum sciences transportation Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/a1558b4f06254d3c03f737581a2f33a8.jpg d13a1b1559a162030207816e1364409f Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://library.si.edu/libraries/national-museum-american-history-library">National Museum of American History Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1217/#geolocation">1400 Constitution Avenue, NW, Room 5016 Washington, DC 20004</a> <a>+1 (202) 633-3865</a> <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Aaskalibrarian@si.edu%E2%80%9D">askalibrarian@si.edu</a> Description The National Museum of American History (NMAH) Library supports research in the following areas: - advances in technology, including machinery and transportation - all areas of American history, including social, cultural, political, and economic events and development - the impact of social, cultural, political and economic developments on everyday American life - scientific developments The Library collection includes: - over 120,000 book titles - 45,000 volumes of bound serials, 300 current titles, and 3,000 non-current titles - 500 microfilm titles (approx. 8,000 reels of microfilm) - 20,000 microfiche Resource <a href="http://library.si.edu/libraries/american-history/special-collections">Trade Literature and Special Collections:</a> The NMAH Library American Trade Literature Collection includes approximately 500,000 historical trade catalogs, representing 30,000 companies, and features predominantly American-manufactured products for industry, agriculture, business, and decorative arts. Primarily from 1880-1945, our collection includes product catalogs, technical manuals, advertising brochures, price lists, and company histories. Researchers use the collection to understand America’s technological and business heritage, learn about product manufacturers, the status of various manufactured items, their intended uses, and to establish manufacture dates. There are also the World's Fairs and Expositions Collection, Serials Collection, and Microform Collection. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource National Museum of American History Library, Smithsonian Institution Libraries 15th century 16th century 17th century 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century agriculture books business history culture District of Columbia engineering library museum trade Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/a63e24b89edfc3353b1927db75d85bc6.jpg 921327d1f037023a9ebcf225bc0765ed Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://library.si.edu/libraries/botany-and-horticulture-library">Botany and Horticulture Library, Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Libraries</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1216/#geolocation">1000 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20004</a> <a>+1 (202) 633-1685</a> <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Aaskalibrarian@si.edu%E2%80%9D">askalibrarian@si.edu</a> Description The Botany Library was established in the winter of 1965-1966 when the Botany Department moved into the newly-built West Wing of the Natural History Museum and several collections of botanical literature were consolidated into a separate library. It provides research support for the Botany Department and the large number of botanists world-wide who use the collections and resources. The Horticulture Branch Library was established in 1984 as a research support resource for the Horticulture Services Division, which is responsible for the management of the gardens, grounds, greenhouses, and interior plantscaping at the Smithsonian Institution. The Library evolved from a small office collection that was begun in the early 1970s. Since that time, this collection has been enhanced by the donation of several large gifts. An acquisition in 1984 of more than 150 American titles on landscape design dating from the 19th- and early 20th-centuries has become the foundation of a growing collection the subject. The Botany Branch Library houses around 50,000 volumes, including both books and journals, supporting the major interests of the Botany Department. Emphasis is on all aspects of plant systematics, including palynology, molecular evolution, classification, identification, nomenclature, cladistics, floristics, and endangered and threatened species. Other related subjects are botanical history, especially of North and South America, ethnobotany, plant exploration, and botanical illustration. Geographical coverage is world-wide, with a special emphasis on the neotropics. The Horticulture Library houses more than 5,000 books, 2,700 volumes of periodicals, 10,000 trade catalogs, 40 running feet of subject files, and a growing collection of videotapes. The branch collects materials in historical and practical horticulture, garden history, and landscape design in America and its influences. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Botany and Horticulture Library, Natural Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Libraries 19th century 20th century 21st century audiovisual books botany design District of Columbia floristics garden journals landscape library museum nootropics palynology periodicals trade catalogs Washington https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/0ca25b07263c6aabf145ae2cfa5a9ee9.jpg d63c96a1a5daf70d381aedbbb106a304 https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/15d1f50c953d09fa165e51b85259ebed.jpg 4b6187c230a069690459dd5856ff23ba https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/4e712af1b06efd264f3d461b3df23eea.jpg f95544592f725e4e388e5f47af68e23a https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/667810b0d5c30cca43417f13c06bd4bd.jpg 459d331a0df1185a5650acbd0a0f6ffc https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/2110512c7a5fe9136f8b76ebed0cb91b.jpg 088ee147032d3b89e90366111fc53648 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://americanart.si.edu/">American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1215/#geolocation">750 9th Street, NW, Suite 3100 Washington, DC 20001</a> Research & Scholars Center: <a>+1 (202) 633-2677</a> Photograph Archives: <a>+1 (202) 633-8390 </a> Research & Scholars Center: <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Aartref@si.edu%E2%80%9D">artref@si.edu</a> Photograph Archives: <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Asapa@si.edu%E2%80%9D">sapa@si.edu</a> Description The Smithsonian American Art Museum, the nation's first collection of American art, is an unparalleled record of the American experience. The collection captures the aspirations, character, and imagination of the American people throughout three centuries. The museum is the home to one of the largest and most inclusive collections of American art in the world. Its artworks reveal key aspects of America's rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today. The museum has been a leader in identifying and collecting significant aspects of American visual culture, including photography, modern folk and self-taught art, African American art, Latino art, and video games. The museum has the largest collection of New Deal art and exceptional collections of contemporary craft, American impressionist paintings and masterpieces from the Gilded Age. In recent years, the museum has focused on strengthening its contemporary art collection, and in particular media arts, through acquisitions, awards, curatorial appointments, endowments, and by commissioning new artworks. Photographs by <a href="http://www.matailongdu.com/">Matailong Du</a>. Resource <a href="http://americanart.si.edu/research/programs/inventory/">National Art Inventories:</a> The Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture document more than 400,000 artworks in public and private collections worldwide. The Inventory of American Paintings includes works by artists who were active in America by 1914. The Inventory of American Sculpture has no cut-off date and includes works from the colonial era through contemporary times. These online databases are supplemented by a photographic collection of over 80,000 images. The photographs are available for study purposes in our Washington, DC office. <a href="http://americanart.si.edu/research/programs/sos/">Save Outdoor Sculpture!</a> Save Outdoor Sculpture! (SOS!) is a program committed to the preservation and celebration of America’s outdoor sculptures. SOS! works to generate appreciation, enthusiasm, and a sense of ownership for America’s largest collection of art and to promote outdoor sculpture as an education resource. <a href="http://americanart.si.edu/research/programs/archive/">Photograph Archives:</a> The Smithsonian American Art Museum's extensive Photograph Archives contain nearly a half million negatives, photographs, and slides. The images document American art from the colonial period to the present. <a href="http://americanart.si.edu/research/programs/libraries/index.cfm">Library:</a> The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery Library (AA/PG) is shared by the two museums. The AA/PG Library's collection consists of over 180,000 books, exhibition catalogues, catalogues raisonné, periodicals, and dissertations that concentrate on American art, history, and biography, with supporting materials on European art. The AA/PG Library also collects artists' books, auction catalogues, scrapbooks, and microforms. The vertical files in the library are particularly rich. They include ephemeral materials (uncataloged exhibition catalogues, newspaper and magazine clippings, exhibition announcements and illustrations, etc.) on American and European art, artists, art institutions, collectors, and special subjects. Items are added daily to the vertical files. The Art and Artist Files can be accessed online through the Digital Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Libraries Research Information Systems (SIRIS). Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource American Art Museum, Smithsonian Institution 18th century 19th century 20th century 21st century African American art American art art books colonial america contemporary District of Columbia ephemera exhibits Gilded Age impressionist inventories Latino art microforms modern folk museum New Deal art paintings periodicals photographs preservation scrapbooks sculptures vertical files video games Washington Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.anthropology.si.edu/naa/search.html">National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1214/#geolocation">4210 Silver Hill Road Suitland, MD 20746</a> National Anthropological Archives: <a>+1 (301) 238-1310</a> Human Studies Film Archives: <a>+1 (301) 238-1330 </a> National Anthropological Archives: <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Anaa@si.edu%E2%80%9D">naa@si.edu</a> Human Studies Film Archives: <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Ahsfa@si.edu%E2%80%9D">hsfa@si.edu</a> Description The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives in the department of Anthropology, Collections and Archives Program collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars. Resource <a href="http://www.anthropology.si.edu/naa/home/naahome.html">National Anthropological Archives:</a> The National Anthropological Archives and Human Studies Film Archives collect and preserve historical and contemporary anthropological materials that document the world's cultures and the history of anthropology. Their collections represent the four fields of anthropology – ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and physical anthropology – and include fieldnotes, journals, manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, maps, sound recordings, film and video created by Smithsonian anthropologists and other preeminent scholars. <a href="http://www.anthropology.si.edu/naa/home/hsfahome.html">Human Studies Film Archives:</a> he Human Studies Film Archives (HSFA) is devoted to preserving, documenting, and providing access to anthropological moving image materials. The Archives officially began its mission in 1975 when, as the National Anthropological Film Center, it initiated a program that both created and collected films of anthropological research interest. The archives promote the importance of moving image materials as an integral part of the anthropological record related to documentation and research. HSFA Collections and resources support research on specific cultures, the development of ethnographic film, and the broad study of visual culture. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource National Anthropological Archives & Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution 20th century 21st century anthropology archaeology archives art audiovisual correspondence culture ethnology human studies international journals manuscripts maps Maryand photographs Suitland https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/dc8542c257bbe0655d5906eac9cc4a31.jpg 58612b78bd383f06cdb283f0e83577e1 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/default.asp">Freer Gallery of Art & the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1213/#geolocation">1050 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20560</a> Library: <a>+1 (202) 633-0477</a> Archives: <a>+1 (202) 633-0533</a> <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Apublicaffairsasia@si.edu%E2%80%9D">publicaffairsasia@si.edu</a> Description The Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain some of the most important holdings of Asian art in the world. In addition, the Freer Gallery boasts exemplary examples of late-nineteenth-century works of American landscape and portraiture by James McNeill Whistler and his contemporaries. The Sackler Gallery is host to contemporary art from Asia as well as international loan exhibitions. Together, both galleries form the national museums of Asian art at the Smithsonian Institution, and are dedicated to the acquisition, care, study, and exhibition of works in their collections. The Smithsonian Institution has two museums of Asian art: the Freer Gallery of Art, which opened to the public in 1923, and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, which welcomed its first visitors in 1987. Both are physically connected by an underground passageway and ideologically linked through the study, exhibition, and sheer love of Asian art. In addition, the Freer Gallery contains an important collection of nineteenth century American art punctuated by James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, perhaps one of the earliest (and certainly one of the most controversial) art installations on record. Each building has its own aesthetic. The Freer is designed in a classical style whose architectural nexus is a courtyard that used to house live peacocks in the museum's early days. It was Charles Lang Freer's goal to facilitate the appreciation of world cultures through art, a noble undertaking as important today as it was more than a century ago, when he first willed his artwork and archives to the nation. The Sackler takes you on an underground journey and is home to Dr. Arthur Sackler's incomparable collection of art, including some of the most important ancient Chinese jades and bronzes in the world. In addition, the Sackler Gallery contains works that have been acquired in the last twenty years and also features the Perspectives series of contemporary art that greets and often surprises visitors when they first enter the Gallery. Resource <a href="http://www.asia.si.edu/research/library.asp">Library:</a> The library's collection is especially strong in research materials on Japanese ceramics, painting, and woodblock prints. It also has an excellent collection of resources for the study of Chinese painting, calligraphy, ceramics, jade, Buddhist sculpture, and ancient bronzes. Its strengths in the area of ancient Near Eastern art are Sassanian metalwork, ceramics, and cylinder seals. The library also has an exceptional collection of material on Indian miniature painting and sculpture as well as on Islamic metalwork, ceramics, glass, and the arts of the book. <a href="http://www.asia.si.edu/research/archives.asp"> Archives:</a> The Archives houses more than 140 collections—amounting to over one thousand linear feet of materials—dating from the early nineteenth century to the present. Rich and diverse materials include the personal and professional papers of preeminent art historians, archaeologists, artists, dealers, and collectors, plus major collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography of Asia and the Middle East. The collections also include still and moving pictures, graphics, audio tapes, and other forms of documentation. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Freer Gallery of Art & the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution 19th century archaeology art Asian art audiovisual calligraphy District of Columbia international Islamic metalwork landscape museum paintings Peacock Room personal papers photographs portraiture Sassanian metalwork sculptures Washington Whistler, James McNeill https://berd.artinterp.org/files/original/87e050079b137748ad13e7bfb9016667.jpg 7d5d273879f2c05989eb56b1f6472a75 Directory Type2 Contact <a href="http://gardens.si.edu/collections-research/aag.html">Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution</a> <a href="http://berd.artinterp.org/omeka/items/show/1212/#geolocation">Capital Gallery, Suite 3300 600 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20024</a> <a>+1 (202) 633-5840</a> <a href="%E2%80%9Cmailto%3Aaag@si.edu">aag@si.edu gardens@si.edu</a> Description The mission of the Archives of American Gardens is to collect and make available for research use unique, high quality images of and documentation relating to a wide variety of cultivated gardens throughout the United States that are not documented elsewhere since historic, designed and cultural landscapes are subject to change, loss and destruction. In this way, AAG strives to preserve and highlight a meaningful compendium of significant aspects of gardening in the United States for the benefit of researchers and the public today and in the future. The Archives of American Gardens (AAG) currently documents over 7,500 gardens throughout the United States. Images in the collection, which show views from 1870s to the present, include such features as garden furniture and ornamentation, fountains, sculptures, fences and gates, parterres, and garden structures to name a few. The design styles represented range from large Italianate estates to herb and rose gardens, cottage and patio gardens, and urban parks. The core of the Archives is a collection of nearly 3,500 hand-colored glass lantern slides dating from the 1920s and 1930s along with approximately 37,000 35mm slides of gardens that date from colonial times to the present. Over 24,000 photographs from the Archives have been digitized and are publicly available through the Smithsonian's online catalog, www.siris.si.edu. <a href="http://gardens.si.edu/collections-research/aag-collections-guide.html#">Collections Guide</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution 19th century 20th century 21st century archives art colonial america District of Columbia furniture garden Italianate estates landscape photographs records sculptures structures urban parks Washington