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  1. Screenshot of website with grey/green background, series of images of the Archives, and orange block for navigation at the top.

    The Future Is Here

    • Date: October 26, 2017
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: Welcome to the newly refreshed Smithsonian Institution Archives website! As our regular visitors may have noticed, we launched a new theme for our site on September 27, 2017. Our previous Drupal theme was first launched in 2011 when we moved our site over to Drupal. Since that time, we have upgraded the backend, made improvements to our searching, and increased the

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    Google Halts an Archiving Project

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Newspapers, by Quinn Cowper, Creative Commons: BY-NC-ND 2.0."][/caption] On May 20th, a flurry of reports took note of Google’s decisions to halt its ambitious efforts to digitize the contents of newspaper archives and make them online and at no cost.

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  5. Smithson’s Crypt in Genoa, Italy, Prematio Studio Fotographico (Genova, Italy), 1897, Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative # 82-3195.

    Happy Birth Year, Mr. Smithson

    • Date: November 17, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: 2015 is the 250th anniversary of James Smithson’s birth. Although we don’t know the day of his birth, this year we are celebrating his birthday.

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  7. Photographers with photographic equipment by the U.S. Fish Commission fish hatchery ponds located near the grounds of the Washington Monument.

    Vintage Shutterbugs

    • Date: May 26, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Did you know that May is National Photography Month? Declared by Congress as a month-long event in 1987, National Photography Month celebrates all aspects of photography. We invite you to see what our photographers were up to a century before this declaration in this behind- the-scenes slideshow of the photographic laboratory spaces, set-ups, and equipment of the United States

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  9. February 4, 1925 Letter Charles Doolittle Walcott to William Howard Taft, Record Unit 45 - Office of the Secretary, Records, 1890-1929, Smithsonian Institution Archive, neg. no. SIA2015-001132.

    Hoping it Will Help

    • Date: December 2, 2014
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: How one dollar launched a fundraising campaign in 1925.

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    I'll Show You Mine.

    • Date: April 2, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Cover of Reader's Digest magazine featuring article on sexting, by Matt M, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Over the past few weeks, the web’s been abuzz with articles, blog posts, and comments about sexting, the practice of sending explicit photos (and sometimes texts and videos as well) over the Internet.

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    Illegible, She Wrote

    • Date: May 16, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="A Penmanship sign was located in Boerum Hill and was painted in 1997. It was a faux billboard created by Jerry Johnson of Orange Outdoor Advertising, Photo by Bosc d'Anjou, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] A week or so ago, I was looking through documents scanned by the Smithsonian Institution

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  15. Eucosma ragonoti barnesiana Dyar, 1903, Collected by Harrison G. Dyar, National Museum of Natural History.

    The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar

    • Date: May 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a

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  17. An Introduction to Oral History

    • Date: June 9, 2020
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: Explore this brief introduction to oral history based on best practices used in the Archives’ Smithsonian Oral History Program.

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  19. JoGayle Howard at Dissecting Microscope, 1982.

    JoGayle Howard: Pioneer in Endangered Species Reproduction

    • Date: March 28, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Theriogenologist JoGayle Howard was a pioneer in the assisted reproduction of many endangered species.

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    NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years

    • Date: December 12, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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    New Identification of Scopes Trial Photos—Thanks to You!

    • Date: August 11, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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