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  1. Drawing of Spencer Fullerton Baird's Pet Dog

    Smithsonian Open Access-iversary

    • Date: February 25, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at CC0 content we have posted in the year since the Smithsonian Open Access launch!

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  3. The Star-Spangled Banner, undated.

    2016’s Top Ten Smithsonian History Images

    • Date: December 29, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives makes thousands of historic images of the exhibits, events, and happenings at the Smithsonian available online and, as the year comes to a close, we thought this would be a good time to take a look at some of the year’s most popular Smithsonian History images. You can search the History of the Smithsonian catalog at siris.si.edu to find

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    Science Service, Up Close: The “Porcupine” Letters

    • Date: October 17, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A 1936 exchange of letters about the prickly porcupine preserves both a contemporary scientific debate and the wit and wisdom of a young Utah girl with a beloved pet.

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    Here Comes the Revolution?

    • Date: September 11, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2262" align="aligncenter" width="186" caption="Frankenstein by MARX!, by Flickr user TCM Hitchhiker."][/caption] For all the talk about creative seeing and the art of photography, the technical parameters of picture-taking and making have, for the most part, been defined by manufacturers of camera and photographic supplies. That wasn’t always the case;

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  9. Hirshhorn walks in front of O'Keeffe near a home in the mountains. Hirshhorn is wearing a long coat and O'Keeffe is wearing a hat. Hirshhorn is smiling at the camera.

    The Room That Could Have Been

    • Date: November 11, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe and the Hirshhorns had a friendly relationship. Read about how the two almost negotiated a deal to create a room dedicated to her work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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  11. Word processor,

    Technology Throwback Thursday: Snail Mail and Word Processors

    • Date: July 10, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A brief look at the evolution of public inquiries at the Smithsonian.

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  13. Ursula Marvin lies on her stomach to look into ice. A colleague kneels next to her, taking notes.

    100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History

    • Date: January 6, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support

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    Women in Science: What the Photos Say

    • Date: March 20, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption width="189" caption="Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope, Smithsonian Insitution Archives"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_238" width="162" caption="New Use for Light Reflector, National Museum of American History"][/caption]I was intrigued by a recent post on the National Museum of American History’s (NMAH) blog about the

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    See Here: 7/8/2010

    • Date: July 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption=""Japan: Design Today" exhibition organized by the Japan Design House, the Walker Art Center and the Smithsonian Institution, and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, seen here as installed at the Walker Art Center, November 1960, by Robert Wilcox, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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  19. Sophie G. Lutterlough c. 2008, photographer unknown, www.tributes.com.

    “It Won’t Be Easy to Leave after 40 Years”: Sophie Lutterlough’s Career at the National Museum of Natural History

    • Date: February 16, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Sophie Lutterlough to the National Museum of Natural History.

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  21. Finding the Digital Treasures

    • Date: November 1, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Highlighting some of the Archives favorite digital objects in its collections.

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    Made You Look!!!

    • Date: July 8, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative

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