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    1. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

      Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

      • Date: October 21, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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    3. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    5. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

      The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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    7. The Deadwood Coach

      Can You Relate? Connecting SIA Collections with Themes in the Transcription Center

      • Date: July 16, 2013
      • Description: How Transcription Center themes open connections for Smithsonian Archives' collections that create relatedness, unveil stories, and ask new questions.

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    9. Baird's Network

      • Date: September 2, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A look at Spencer F. Baird's tenure at the Smithsonian establishing a network of collectors to launch the Smithsonian's first official museum.

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    11. From Plantations to Islands of Science: Travels in Costa Rica and Panama - Part II

      • Date: January 31, 2013
      • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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    13. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

      • Date: March 30, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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    15. A Salute to Scrapbooks

      • Date: May 6, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of National Scrapbooking Month, the Archives highlights the scrapbook of William and Lucile Mann from their trip to Argentina in 1939.

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    17. Page one of The Crossroads exhibit.

      Exhibiting the Enola Gay

      • Date: June 25, 2020
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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    19. A woman in a white polo holds up a certificate that reads:

      Women in the Office of Protection Services

      • Date: March 12, 2019
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.

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      From a Humble Beginning: The Smithsonian’s first Internet Domain

      • Date: September 17, 2015
      • Description: The origins of the Smithsonian’s internet domain or address.

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    23. Title and many subtitles about death of Hall in the New York Herald.

      Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris

      • Date: August 13, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain during the 1871–73 Polaris Expedition.

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