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  1. State Highway in Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Humboldt County, California, 1921.

    Science Service, Up Close: Save the Redwoods

    • Date: May 21, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Science Service: Up Close - Pictures from the Bolling Memorial Redwood Grove, Humboldt County, California.

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    Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

    • Date: March 11, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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  5. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

    Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

    • Date: September 24, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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  7. Cathedral?, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-003197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Where Was Watson?

    • Date: September 15, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Help the Smithsonian Institution Archives identify the locations of Watson Davis’s vacation photographs from August and September 1925.

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  9. A man sits at a desk with an open book.

    Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

    • Date: November 7, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.

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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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    Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words

    • Date: July 10, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had

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  15. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

    Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

    • Date: January 19, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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  17. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

    Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

    • Date: March 6, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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  19. Harrison E. Howe, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID 2008-3958.

    Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?

    • Date: November 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.

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  21. Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes, June 1925.

    90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial

    • Date: July 9, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.

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    Par for the Course

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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