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      Remembering Robert McCormick Adams, Secretary 1984-1994

      • Date: January 29, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10199,size=500,center]Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1984 to 1994. He succeeded S. Dillon Ripley who had overseen a period of remarkable expansion from 1964 to 1984. Dr. Dr. Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1984 to 1994. An

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    3. Secretary Adams: A Fascination with Fieldwork

      • Date: September 13, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Learn more about Secretary Robert Adams through his oral histories, which are newly available for research.

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      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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    7. A No-Shave November Matching Game

      • Date: November 1, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: In observance of No-Shave November, play our Smithsonian history-themed matching game!

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    9. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: November 29, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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      Celebrating the Smithsonian Latino Center

      • Date: September 17, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Documenting the history, programs, and activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center through the capture of their websites and their other online sites.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

      • Date: May 8, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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      Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

      • Date: November 27, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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      Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017

      • Date: July 6, 2017
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into

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      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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