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  1. A screenshot of the Archives' Collections Search

    Highlighting Reference Services on the New Archives Website

    • Date: September 27, 2011
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

    • Date: December 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

    • Date: March 31, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  7. Stratosphere on the Street in Washington D.C., April 15, 1936, by Ruel P. Tolman, Record Unit 7433 - Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 1909-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2011-2366 or 32233-3.

    A Mysterious Sphere

    • Date: July 24, 2014
    • Description: Can you help identify this exploration vessel and what it’s doing on the streets of Washington?

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  9. I Am My Own Commodity

    • Date: March 24, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: While the economy may be perking up, the recession we’re still climbing out of has made one thing clear; if you need to earn a living, you’ve got to think entrepreneurially. Read enough success stories about former executives who’ve become cupcake moguls and a path becomes clear: take the dreams and skills you have, along with whatever compelling back story you can point to

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  11. Blog Post

    Postcards on the Edge

    • Date: February 18, 2010
    • Description: One of the largest collections of real photo postcards at the Smithsonian can be found in the conveniently titled “post card collection” in the Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Madagascar - Le bel album venu de France, c. 1905, by Unknown photograher, Postcard, National Museum of African Art,

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  13. Portrait of James Smithson.

    Hungerford Family Visits the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 27, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In July 2019, the Hungerfords, descendants of James Smithson’s mother’s family visited the Smithsonian and got to see a new Hungerford document.

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  15. Blog Post

    Who we think we might be

    • Date: April 15, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

    National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

    • Date: September 18, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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  19. Painting on a square canvas with a large black circle in the center with various triangular shapes inside

    Uta C. Merzbach: Smithsonian's First Curator of Mathematical Instruments

    • Date: March 22, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Uta C. Merzbach was the Smithsonian's first curator of mathematical instruments. She brought her field to life with unique presentations of mathematical concepts and computer history.

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  21. Statue by George Segal of a citizen listening to one of President Roosevelt's fireside chats.

    The Painter and the Poet: Creative Writing at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

    • Date: April 4, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Pieces by aspiring poets—and a look at the artwork that inspired them—from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s writing workshops.

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  23. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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