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  1. Two sketches of uniforms for servers for a man and woman. Both are holding trays and wearing aprons.

    Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

    • Date: July 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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  3. Secretary G. Wayne Clough and Smithsonian Historian, Pam Henson, 12/4/2014

    And the award goes to...

    • Date: December 30, 2014
    • Creator: Anne Van Camp
    • Description: The Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service was created in 1964 and is the highest honor given to Smithsonian staff for exceptional service over a long period of time. On December 4, 2014, Secretary G. Wayne Clough presented this award to Pam Henson for a lifetime of exceptional service to the Smithsonian Institution. She began her career here in 1973 and has been in

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    Exploration of the Southern Continent

    • Date: April 4, 2017
    • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=150,left]Much of the Smithsonian's early natural history collections came from Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The fourth Annual Report (1850) discusses several Latin American expeditions, in particular the exploration of islands near Nicaragua by Ephraim G. Squier, who served as U.S. charge d'affaires

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  7. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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  9. Finding Aid

    SIA RU007417, Bailey, Florence Merriam 1863-1948, Florence Merriam Bailey Papers, 1865-1942

    • Date: 1865 1865-1942
    • Creator: Bailey, Florence Merriam, 1863-1948
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  11. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 17-067, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Science Media Group, Productions, 1994-2013

    • Date: 1994 1994-2013
    • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Science Media Group
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  13. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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  15. Document

    JHP_National_Republican_December_16_1861.pdf

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    • Authority Record/EAC

      Agency history, 1947-

      • Date: 1968 1947-
      • Creator: National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Political and Military History

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 11-272, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Sponsored Programs and Procurement Department, Grant Proposals, 1997-2010

      • Date: 1997 1997-2010
      • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Sponsored Programs and Procurement Department
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Field notes, 1964, 1964, Smithsonian Field Book Project, SIA RU007318.

      Field notes, 1964

      • Date: 1964 19640315 19640425
      • Creator: Cooper, G. Arthur (Gustav Arthur) 1902-

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    • Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Michigan and Minnesota, March 23-April 13, 1907

      Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Michigan and Minnesota, March 23-April 13, 1907

      • Date: 1907 19070323 19070413
      • Creator: Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942

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