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    1. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

      Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

      • Date: March 5, 2020
      • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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    3. One of the many behind-the-scenes photos in the Archives new Flickr photostream.

      Introducing the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ New Flickr Photostream

      • Date: May 2, 2012
      • Creator: Susannah Wells
      • Description: Smithsonian Institution Archives is now using Flickr hightlight behind-the-scenes projects, workshops, and staff at work.

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    5. Link Love: 11/22/2019

      • Date: November 22, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    7. The National Museum of Natural History’s Forensic Ornithologist, Carla Dove, examines the remains of birds that struck airplanes in order to minimize future, sometimes fatal, bird-strike accidents. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Carla Dove

      • Date: January 7, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The National Museum of Natural History’s Forensic Ornithologist, Carla Dove, examines the remains of birds that struck airplanes in order to minimize future, sometimes fatal, bird-strike accidents. #Groundbreaker

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      See Here: 3/2/2011

      • Date: March 2, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Ten men are carrying a cayuco ("dug-out canoe") to the water in María, Coiba Island, Panama, The image was taken by Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition to Coiba to study birds the birds of Panama, January 24, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    11. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

      • Date: August 20, 2013
      • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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      See Here: 4/13/2011

      • Date: April 13, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="323" caption="From left to right: Herbert G. Deignan, Secretary Alexander Wetmore (seated), Jane Love, Samuel A. Arny, and Herbert Friedmann are looking at a tray of birds from the collection. Wetmore and Friedmann are holding birds from the tray in their hands, 1951, by Charles Eliot Perkins, Color photo, Smithsonian Institution

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      Aww: Cute Baby Animals and Other Field Book Surprises

      • Date: May 25, 2017
      • Creator: Mignonette (Mig) Dooley Johnson:
      • Description: Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.

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    17. 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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    19. Link Love: 11/20/15

      • Date: November 20, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In anticipation of its Fall 2016 opening, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) did something beautiful. A film, by Stanley J. Nelson and Marcia Smith, was projected on NMAAHC's new building representing the history of African Americans in the U.S. You can check out all the images from the projection mapping on their Pinterest

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    21. Forensic ornithologist, Roxie Collie Laybourne, created the field of forensic ornithology which has improved air safety through the use of bird data, by making modifications to flight plans and creating programs to scare away birds at some airports. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Roxie Collie Laybourne

      • Date: August 19, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Forensic ornithologist, Roxie Collie Laybourne, created the field of forensic ornithology which has improved air safety through the use of bird data, by making modifications to flight plans and creating programs to scare away birds at some airports. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Free NASA Posters, image courtesy NASA/JPL.

      Link Love: 02/19/2016

      • Date: February 19, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a

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