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  1. Everything I Own

    • Date: February 6, 2020
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on

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  3. Black and white half-plate daguerreotype of a woman seen from the chest up, image is in a black frame

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

    • Date: May 22, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch

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  5. A group of people hold up “welcome” signs at an entrance of the National Museum of American History.

    We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 14, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.

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  7. Dog Days at the Zoo, Part I

    • Date: September 11, 2012
    • Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.

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  9. View of a snow-topped mountain. At the center of the photographs is a tree with trimmed branches and no leaves.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021

    • Date: April 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”

    • Date: September 1, 2020
    • Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.

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  13. Page from a coloring activitity of rooms in the Smithsonian Castle. This one is of the library.

    Distance Learning Activities and Tips from the Archives

    • Date: April 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Whether you have a little downtime or you wish you remembered what downtime was like, the Archives is here for you with a few distance learning activities and organization tips.

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  15. The National Museum of African American History and Culture, Spring 2016.

    Viewing the Smithsonian in a Different Way

    • Date: January 31, 2017
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Smithsonian Architectural History and Historic Preservation office serves as curator of the Smithsonian buildings.

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  17. An x-ray of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) in the guise of a Buddha reveals three wood support screws. F1957.25. Courtesy of the Freer and Sackler Galleries.

    Link Love: 10/25/2013

    • Date: October 25, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Rosa Parks' Archive and Some Controversies Around It...

    • Date: August 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

    • Date: September 15, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

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  23. A man sits at a desk in an office. Papers and books are stacked on desks in the office.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

    • Date: July 21, 2022
    • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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