Dear all,
Thought you might find the new Smithsonian Collections Search Center to be helpful (or just plain fun to look through). It currently has 2.3 million records and is growing fast.
Laurie Burgess
Associate Chair
Department of Anthropology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
10th and Constitution Avenue NW
P.O. Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
(202) 633-1915
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Smithsonian Libraries, Archives and Museums have worked together and created the Collections Search Center ( http://collections.si.edu ), a one-stop-searching center for the public for SI collections. This fast growing Collections Search Center is hosted by OCIO and currently contains 2.3 million records with 280,000 online media such as images, sound files, videos, and online collections.
Collections are contributed by:
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
National Air and Space Museum
National Museum of American Indians
National Museum of Natural History
National Portrait Gallery
National Postal Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Archives at the National Museum of the American Indian
Archives Center at National Museum of American History
Archives of American Art
Archives of American Gardens
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives,
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Human Studies Film Archives
National Air and Space Museum Archives Division
National Anthropological Archives
Smithsonian American Art Museum Photo Archives
Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory - Chandra X-ray Observatory
We encourage you to look at and explore the search center and see the power of pulling our resources together. The following includes just a few examples:
American Artist portraits <http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?fq=online_media_type:%22Images%22&q=american+artist+portraits&view=list&start=0>
American Indian beadworks<http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?fq=online_media_type:%22Images%22&q=american+indian+beadwork&view=list&start=0>
African American pilots<http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?view=&dsort=&date.slider=&q=African+American+pilots>
Butterflies<http://collections.si.edu/search/results.jsp?date.slider=&date.slider=&q=Butterflies>
This search center also supports the ability to read manuscripts page-by-page with zooming capability. Please try these examples:
Notebook by Albert Samuel<http://collections.si.edu/search/slideshow_embedded?xml=http://sirismm.si.edu/naa/viewer/MS4658_14_Gallery/MS4658_14.xml>
Sitting Bull pictographic autobiography, 1882<http://collections.si.edu/search/slideshow_embedded?xml=http://sirismm.si.edu/naa/viewer/MS1929b_Gallery/MS1929b.xml>
We thank all the partners for making this effort possible.
Ching-hsien Wang,
Library and Archives Systems Support Branch,
Office of Chief Information Officer
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