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  1. Digital contact sheet that includes 12 photographs of Jones standing in front of the Smithsonian Castle. He is wearing a suit. He looks directly toward the camera and slightly off into the distance in various photographs.

    The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones

    • Date: February 17, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.

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  3. Kensington stone, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 38110a.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: June 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Cover of OPA Negative Log

    Office of Public Affairs Photographic Collection

    • Date: September 19, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Highlighting the photographic holdings at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    See Here: 7/13/2018

    • Date: July 13, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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  9. 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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    Are You There?

    • Date: July 29, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,

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  13. 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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  15. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

    Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

    • Date: August 4, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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  17. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

    • Date: April 12, 2018
    • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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  19. Hot Topics In Archives Research

    • Date: July 9, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Link Love: 8/27/2010

    • Date: August 27, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="167" caption="The Mona Lisa, between 1503 and 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on poplar, The Louvre Museum."][/caption] Scientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s beguiling smile by using x-ray technology [via More Intelligent Life]. And while we're at it, scientists use UV light to reveal how awesomely gaudy the colors of

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    Link Love: 4/8/2011

    • Date: April 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="198" caption="Screenshot from music video "Smooth Criminal" by Michael Jackson, Shows use of anti-gravity leaning patent, Courtesy of Wikipedia."][/caption] Umm, this definitely wins the award for my most favorite new discovery in an archive. How did Michael Jackson do that off the hook lean in his dance in “Smooth Criminal”? Apparently

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