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      The Time Has Come

      • Date: February 8, 2011
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_11359" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup Design for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Courtesy NMAAHC."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER

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    3. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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    5. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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    7. Brigadier General Adolphus Washington Greely

      Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

      • Date: August 2, 2016
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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    9. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

      Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 26, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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      It Pays to Be Free

      • Date: March 25, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bus Seats, by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License"][/caption] I took a stroll at lunch today since it’s that time of year again when the magnolia trees bloom in the Smithsonian Castle’s Enid Haupt Garden. It’s important to catch it before a rain or a big breeze snatches

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    13. Three teens examining a hidden message on a pencil in front of gothic doors.

      Well-played!

      • Date: August 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Castle halls were alive with adventure this summer! From July 7th to August 27th, we piloted a live game for teens, The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches. A look at some of the early feedback received on the Smithsonian's pilot of a history game, "The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches."

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    15. The Prophet, newsletter of the Smithsonian African American Association, Volume 1, Issue 1, Accession 99-016, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Image no. SIA2016-008658.

      Smithsonian African American Association

      • Date: February 9, 2016
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: The Smithsonian African American Association was formed in 1989 and was an assembly of the Institution's employees who have organized to project a united voice, to have an impact upon pan-institutional policies that affect African Americans, and to convey these concerns to the Smithsonian Administration.

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    17. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

      Hot Topics in Archives Research

      • Date: February 18, 2014
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      Heart of Glass

      • Date: October 5, 2017
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph

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    21. Zoidis stands in front of a Star-Spangled Banner exhibit.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Zoidis

      • Date: December 15, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman

      • Date: December 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.

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