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  1. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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  3. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

    Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

    • Date: October 24, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  5. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

    Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

    • Date: October 21, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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  7. A man sits at a desk on which large bones sit. An animal skeleton is hanging on the wall.

    The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 6, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

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  9. "Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections

    • Date: October 10, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Isabel C. Pérez Farfante

    • Date: September 1, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  13. Interior view of the Arts and Industries Building when 1876: A Centennial Exhibition was on display.

    Archives Puzzles: A Centennial Celebration

    • Date: December 28, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  15. Cortege Bringing James Smithson Remains to Smithsonian, 1904, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 82-3337.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: October 9, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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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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  19. A woman interviewing a man at a table with a recorder in between them.

    Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 6, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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  21. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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  23. Ross Island, Antarctica. Alexander Stevens, chief scientist and geologist looks south. Hut Point Peninsula in the background. Cellulose nitrate processed sheet film negative, found in Captain Scott's 1911 expedition base, Cape Evans, Antarctica, by Antarctica Heritage Trust conservators. Photo by Ernest Shackleton's Ross Sea Party, 1914-1917.

    Link Love: 1/3/2014

    • Date: January 3, 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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