A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF PREMATURE INFANT CARE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 68 (6) ◽  
pp. 762-762
Author(s):  
Audrey B. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
History Of ◽  
Care Technology ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
National Effort

An effort is under way to establish a collection of materials which will trace the development of perinatal-care technology in The National Museum of American History at Smithsonian Institution. Readers of Pediatrics are urged to cooperate in this national effort to locate materials of historical interest in back rooms of hospitals and in private collections. The material of interest ranges from incubators (Lion-type used in incubatorbaby exhibits to the present-day models), resuscitation and ventilating devices (delivery-room apparatus, Bloxom Air-Lock, rocking bed, respirators ...), feeding items (gavage equipment, nasal spoons, indwelling tubes ...), photographs, hospital records (statistical reports, examples of patient records ...) and equipment used in landmark investigations (calorimetry, oxygen consumption ...).

A NATIONAL COLLECTION OF MATERIAL RELATED TO THE HISTORY OF PREMATURE-INFANT CARE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 69 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-723
Author(s):  
Audrey B. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Oxygen Consumption ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Hospital Records ◽  
History Of ◽  
Care Technology ◽  
Private Collections ◽  
National Effort

An effort is under way to establish a collection of materials which will trace the development of perinatal-care technology in The National Museum of American History at Smithsonian Institution. Readers of Pediatrics are urged to cooperate in this national effort to locate materials of historical interest in back rooms of hospitals and in private collections. The material of interest ranges from incubators (Lion-type used in incubator-baby exhibits to the present-day models), resuscitation and ventilating devices (delivery-room apparatus, Bloxom Air-Lock, rocking bed, respirators...), feeding items (gavage equipment, nasal spoons, indwelling tubes...), photographs, hospital records (statistical reports, examples of patient records...) and equipment used in landmark investigations (calorimetry, oxygen consumption...).

Should Museums Serve the Visually Handicapped?

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (10) ◽  
pp. 461-464
Author(s):  
Dove Toll
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Special Training ◽  
History Of ◽  
Blind Persons ◽  
Visually Handicapped

The National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution undertook a research project to determine what could be done to enable visually handicapped persons to benefit from the museum's resources. Programs currently of interest to the blind were advertised, with maps of touchable objects throughout the museum made available. In addition, books about the Smithsonian have been brailled, cassette tours of individual halls prepared, exhibit designers encouraged to include more touchable objects in their displays, and docents given special training in how to relate to and guide blind persons. Further sources of information appear at the end of this article.

American Memory, Culture Wars, and the Challenge of Presenting Science and Technology in a National Museum

2007 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROGER D. LAUNIUS
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Culture Wars ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Historic Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Memory Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
American Memory

Abstract There is no question that the American public has an unabashed appetite for history. This is demonstrated in numerous ways from bestsellers by popular historians to tourism at historic sites and museums to the popularity of films and other media depicting versions of the past. Although historians might think that the discourse presented in most of these forums is simplistic and stilted, little doubt exists that it is passionate. This discussion explores a few of the issues affecting the public's deep fascination with the past, especially in the context of the history of science and technology, and the presentation of these issues in the Smithsonian Institution. These thoughts are tentative and speculative, but, I hope, stimulating and worthy of further consideration.

Walking in the Shadows of Archaeologists Past: Researching Museum Collections and Associated Records to Elucidate past Lifeways

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A. Crowell
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Past ◽  
Private Collections

Researching museum collections and associated field data, in addition to consulting modern scientific studies, can provide a great deal of information about the presence and nature of archaeological sites in a locale. This article was developed based upon collections research conducted for prehistoric archaeological sites in Washington, D.C., using the collections of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and other repositories. The state of collections varies widely. Some collectors gathered only perfect completed tools and other objects, while others collected these materials and debitage. The state of documentation ranges from complete and exacting with precision rivaling modern-day to non-existent. The importance of examining museum collections and private collections, where available, cannot be downplayed. Sometimes they possess the only clues remaining regarding certain practices which occurred in the past and can provide information not otherwise available to the researcher.

scholarly journals Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels from the Wright Plantation (41RR7) and Rowland Clark (41RR77) Sites in the Harris Collection at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Smithsonian Institution ◽  
Red River ◽  
National Museum ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Ceramic Vessel ◽  
Decorative Motifs ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ceramic Vessels

The collection of R. King Harris at the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) at the Smithsonian Institution has ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels from the Wright Plantation (41RR7) and Rowland Clark (41RR77) sites along the Red River in East Texas. Other than the site provenience and the burial number of two of the vessels at the Rowland Clark site, there is no more detailed documentation available on when or where within the sites that Harris obtained the ceramic vessels. Nevertheless, it is important as part of the broader study of the history of Caddo ceramic vessel forms and decorative motifs to put these vessels on record.

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