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  1. Happy Birthday, Smithsonian Magazine!

    • Date: April 21, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A look back at the first issue of Smithsonian Magazine for its 45th anniversary.

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  3. Color painting of a gardener by Vincent Van Gogh.

    Link Love: 9/28/2018

    • Date: September 28, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Par for the Course

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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  7. Ruby slippers, ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

    Link Love: 10/21/2016

    • Date: October 21, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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  9. Untitled, by James Fraser Paige, Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1991-088.

    Link Love: 10/7/2011

    • Date: October 7, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Some Further Thoughts About Photography And the Smithsonian

    • Date: October 18, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Architect's Model of the Smithsonian Institution Castle, 1846, by Unidentified photographer, Daguerreotype, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Image ID: AFS 140."][/caption] In 2000, as an answer to the question, “does the Smithsonian have

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    Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion

    • Date: July 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. Link Love: 11/13/2020

    • Date: November 13, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  17. Taxidermy Mount of African Elephant

    Sneak Peek 11/21/2016

    • Date: November 21, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Mount of African elephant "Mungo" during taxidermy by William Temple Hornaday, MNH-2791.

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  19. Model of the Quadrangle Viewed from the Southwest, c. 1979.

    Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation

    • Date: November 20, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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    Link Love: 6/24/2011

    • Date: June 24, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Headed to DC soon? Leave your thoughts at the National Museum of American History’s TalkBack Board, and then whether you’re in the capital or elsewhere, tune into the NMAH’s Twitter feed for #TalkBackTuesdays, where they’ll feature the best questions and comments from the board. The Museum of Photographic Arts has just joined Flickr Commons, and their photos include some

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  23. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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