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    Weeding Files

    • Date: April 18, 2011
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recommends that files be weeded on a regular basis. Weeding is the act of removing unnecessary files from the active records. The result is significant savings in storage space and faster and more efficient retrieval of information for research purposes. Extensive weeding is necessary when the records contain large numbers of reference

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    SIA Acc. 04-101, Heyer, W. Ronald, W. Ronald Heyer Papers, 1985-2000

    • Date: 1985 1985-2000
    • Creator: Heyer, W. Ronald
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Tag! You're Saved!

    • Date: October 25, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Fingers typing, by Simon Steiner, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."] [/caption] You know that sinking, then maddening feeling: you need to find something you’ve carefully put away, but can’t remember where you’ve stored it or how you characterized or labeled it. That common problem, when it’s blown up to institutional

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  7. DAR Constitution Hall Stage during a Lecture by Lincoln Ellsworth

    DAR Constitution Hall Stage during a Lecture by Lincoln Ellsworth

    • Date: April 15, 1936
    • Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
    • Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954

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  9. Attendees to a Lecture by Lincoln Ellsworth at DAR Constitution Hall

    Attendees to a Lecture by Lincoln Ellsworth at DAR Constitution Hall

    • Date: April 15, 1936
    • Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
    • Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954

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  11. Pressurized Gondola on the Street in Washington D.C

    Pressurized Gondola on the Street in Washington D.C

    • Date: April 15, 1936
    • Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954
    • Creator: Tolman, Ruel P (Ruel Pardee) 1878-1954

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    Still Photographs That Make You Want Moving Ones

    • Date: November 24, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3065" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Detail of a vinyl advertisement, Chennai, India, 2004, by Preminda Jacob."][/caption] It’s interesting to think about how shrewdly and often free still photography is used to get us to pay to watch motion pictures. Still photographs—often shot by special photographers on sound stages or on location, just

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    The Mystery of the Art Room Frieze

    • Date: June 19, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9668,size=200,left]The Art Room, a greatly scaled down successor to the Smithsonian’s original 1857 Gallery of Art, is located on the second floor of the Smithsonian Building (the Castle). It was designed in 1899 by the architectural firm Hornblower and Marshall to house the Smithsonian’s collection of prints and drawings. When the room was first

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  17. “Christmas Among the Soldiers,” The National Republican, December 28, 1861, page

    Hope for the Holidays: A Civil War Season in DC

    • Date: December 22, 2011
    • Description: First hand account of Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, about what Washington DC was like during the holidays in the time of the Civil War.

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  19. The Washington Times (Washington D.C.), 23 July 1909

    All Aboard the Chesapeake Beach Railway!

    • Date: July 12, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the train that once traveled between Chesapeake Beach and Washington, D.C.

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    National Zoo

    • Date: September 19, 2013
    • Description: The National Zoological Park was conceived by William Temple Hornaday and established by an act of Congress in 1889. The Smithsonian’s collection of living animals was originally intended to aid taxidermists’ studies, but Smithsonian Secretaries Spencer F. Baird and Samuel P. Langley helped expand the small menagerie’s purpose. Today it houses over 2,000 animals of around 400

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    Scientific Leadership

    • Date: March 21, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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