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  1. Blog Post

    Road trip!

    • Date: June 29, 2011
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: It was July 1880 in Washington, DC and Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Baird, had fled the city with his family for cool ocean breezes and to study the fishing grounds off the New England coast at Woods Hole on Cape Cod. For those left behind minding the Smithsonian Castle, it was probably hot, humid, and hellish in town and they were in need of relief. Luckily, the proprietors

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  3. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

    Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

    • Date: June 9, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  5. Three teens examining a hidden message on a pencil in front of gothic doors.

    Well-played!

    • Date: August 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Castle halls were alive with adventure this summer! From July 7th to August 27th, we piloted a live game for teens, The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches. A look at some of the early feedback received on the Smithsonian's pilot of a history game, "The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches."

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  7. Field Book

    Panama, 1948 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and to collect bird specimens in Herrera and Los Santos; Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo; correspondence, news clippings, expense records, film notes, travel notes, and memorabilia. Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, and James Zetek; of special interest is a letter from Wetmore to Willis H. Hale (6 May 1948) which contains a report on the expedition

    • Date: 1948 1948 1948

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  9. Field Book

    Panama, 1953 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and the Museo Nacional and collect bird specimens in Sona, Veraguas. Assisted by Watson M. Perrygo; Correspondence, permits, photographs and photographic notes, expense records, itinerary, and memorabilia; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Louise M. Pearson, Matthew Williams and Marion Illg Stirling, Margaret Wetmore Harlan, James Zetek, Eugene Eisenmann, and Karl P. Curtis

    • Date: 1953 19530116 19530619

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  11. Field Book

    Panama, 1954 : to visit the Canal Zone Biological Area and collect bird specimens in Chiriqui. Assisted by Beatrice Thielen Wetmore; The Netherlands Antilles and Venezuela were also visited; Correspondence, newsclippings, reference materials, permits, itinerary, film notes, travel notes, expense records, field report, and memorabilia; Correspondents include John Enos Graf, Watson M. Perrygo, James Zetek, and Adela Gomez

    • Date: 1953-1954 19531115 19540805

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  13. Field Book

    Pseudogryphus californianus, 2 color drawings, 2 letters : 1 W.E. Bryant to Ridgway, 27 March 1884, Copy W.M. Mann to R. Conant, 5 July 1945

    • Date: 1839, 1849-1851, 1855-1987 1839 1987

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  15. SI History Bibliography

    Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives on Public Buildings and Grounds. Report of the Special Committee of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution Relative to the Fire

    • Creator: United States Congress
    • Creator: United States Congress

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  17. Smithsonian Legal Document

    An act to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1997 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for other purposes

    • Date: 1997 09/23/1996
    • Creator: 104th Congress,
    • Creator: 104th Congress,

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  19. Smithsonian Legal Document

    An Act To replace the Vocational Rehabilitation Act, to extend and revise the authorization of grants to States for vocational rehabilitation services, with special emphasis on services to those with the most severe handicaps, to expand special Federal responsibilities and research and training programs with respect to handicapped individuals, to establish special responsibilities in the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for coordination of all programs with respect to handicapped individuals within the Department of health, Education, and Welfare, and for other purposes

    • Date: 1974 09/26/1973
    • Creator: 93d Congress, Sess. 1, 1973
    • Creator: 93d Congress, Sess. 1, 1973

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  21. Smithsonian Legal Document

    An Act To amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to strengthen and improve Federal civil rights laws, to provide for damages in cases of intentional employment discrimination, to clarify provisions regarding disparate impact actions, and for other purposes

    • Date: 1992 11/21/1991 Civil War, 1861-1865
    • Creator: 102d Congress, Sess. 1, 1991
    • Creator: 102d Congress, Sess. 1, 1991

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  23. Smithsonian Legal Document

    Reorganization Plan No. III, Prepared by the President and transmitted to the Senate and the House of Representatives in Congress assembled, April 2, 1940, pursuant to the provisions of the Reorganization Act of 1939, approved April 3, 1939

    • Date: 1941 04/02/1940
    • Creator: 76th Congress, Sess. 3, 1940
    • Creator: 76th Congress, Sess. 3, 1940

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