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      Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

      • Date: June 16, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Since The Bigger Picture began in early 2009, I’ve written a number of posts about what might be called camera traps, situations where cameras are installed to collect evidence of one kind of unusual or unwanted behavior or another. Red light cameras are a controversial example; across the country and on an almost daily basis, local municipalities and motorists argue about

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    3. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

      • Date: August 20, 2013
      • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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    5. 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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      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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    9. Agnes Mary Claypole Moody (1870-1954), Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1

      Found: Two People in the Flickr Commons!

      • Date: January 16, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The story of how an 2 unidentified portraits in the Archives' collection was identified with the help of Flickr users.

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      See Here: 4/5/2010

      • Date: April 5, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Annual Easter Egg Roll on Easter Monday at the National Zoological Park, At the top of the hill is the original 1891 Animal House (Lion House) designed by William R. Emerson. By the turn of the century the National Zoological Park had become a popular spot to spend Easter Monday, c. 1900s, by Unknown photographer,

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    13. Photo of two women in lab working with bones and taxidermic animals and skeletons in background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Melinda Zeder

      • Date: July 18, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    15. Love is in the Air, in the Field, and in the Lab

      • Date: February 14, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: In the past, we’ve talked about how families of Smithsonian researchers helped out with research, and some have even lived in the Smithsonian itself. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, it seems like love, too, has brought many couples together both at the Smithsonian and out in the field. Love, as you’ll see in the photos below, enabled some women to travel the world and get

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      In Living Color

      • Date: January 12, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and

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      The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman

      • Date: December 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

      • Date: March 8, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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    23. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog

      • Date: August 22, 2019
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Pupper, doggy, hound, bowwow, beastie, pooch. No matter what we call dogs, they have always been man’s best friend. In honor of writing a second blog for National Dog Day, let’s take a look at the pooches that pop up around the Smithsonian Institution.[view:sia_slideshow==87224]Related Resources"Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo," The Bigger Picture"Me

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