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  1. Blog Post

    Come Fly With Me

    • Date: October 21, 2010
    • 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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  3. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

    Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

    • Date: December 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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  5. Rediscovering Historical Perspectives: A Newspaper Update on World War II

    • Date: November 11, 2014
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.

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  7. Revisiting the Magnificent Enterprise

    • Date: March 20, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to revisit an important and inspiring exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 1961. “The Magnificient Enterprise: Education Opens the Door” was a photographic exhibition based on the 100 years of higher education for women. Sponsored by Vassar College in observance of its

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  9. Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of

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    You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?

    • Date: May 9, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some

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  13. A white-ish chunky dip is served in a square, white bowl next to a platter of chips.

    A Recipe from the Archives: Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip

    • Date: January 20, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Need some snack inspiration for your family’s Super Bowl game watch? Look no further than the 1984 NMNH Docent Cookbook. Read about how we whipped up the Baked Mushroom Cheese Dip.

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  15. The Mars Rover Spirit took this sublime view of a sunset over the rim of Gusev Crater, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. Taken from Husband Hill, it looks much like a sunset on Earth—a reminder that other worlds can seem eerily familiar. Sunset and twilight images help scientists to determine how high into the atmosphere the Martian dust extends and to look for dust or ice clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Texas A&M/Cornell.

    Link Love: 1/10/2014

    • Date: January 10, 2014
    • 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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    Link Love: 5/30/2014

    • Date: May 30, 2014
    • 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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    Publicity, Politics, and Physics

    • Date: March 10, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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  21. Physicists Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein, co-chairmen of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, photographed by Watson Davis at a meeting of the committee in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1926. By Watson Davis. Accession 90-105: Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-5431.

    Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926

    • Date: October 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.

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  23. Registrar Cordelia Rose added personal and humorous details to the scroll as the automation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum registration process progressed. This photograph, placed near the end of the scroll, depicts programmer Jay Vanatta walking away and a thought bubble noting

    "Scrolling" Through Museum Processes

    • Date: September 12, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Two almost forgotten scrolls document the automation of museum processes at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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