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      The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

      • Date: October 3, 2017
      • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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    3. The north front of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, during the early part of the 20th century.

      Spooks and Spirits: Stories of the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 31, 2015
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Tall tales and spooky ghost stories from Smithsonian history.

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    5. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

      The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    7. Brenner wears headgear that covers her eyes. She holds a tall thin paint brush to a cast.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Phyllis Rudstrom Brenner

      • Date: January 19, 2022
      • 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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      New Feature! Sneak Peek

      • Date: May 18, 2011
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.

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    11. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

      Hearing the Unheard: the Smithsonian and the Riots of 1968

      • Date: September 20, 2016
      • Description: The riots following King’s assassination in 1968 transformed Smithsonian’s relationship to black history and culture.

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      The Archives’ Hidden Women

      • Date: March 15, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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      Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”

      • Date: June 13, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.

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    17. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

      Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

      • Date: December 10, 2020
      • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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      Protecting Wildlife in Our National Parks: William Temple Hornaday and the American Bison

      • Date: August 17, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: August is National Parks Month, a time to celebrate the resources that have been preserved across the country for the public. In August of 1916, the US Congress created the National Park Service which today provides access to unparalleled natural beauty and treasured sites in American history.

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      Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

      • Date: February 22, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    23. Sidedoor Season 2: if these bones could talk

      Sidedoor Podcast: Megatherium Club

      • Date: June 22, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_5844,size=250,left]A staff-favorite story in the Smithsonian’s history is that of the Megatherium Club — a revolving group of young naturalists who made the Castle their temporary home in between expeditions to the outer reaches of the United States. Who could not be intrigued by this photo of the Club where they look to be sharing a joke, or a plan?

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