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    Finding Elizabeth

    • Date: July 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="171" caption="Elizabeth Sabin Goodwin, c. 1920s–1970s, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession number: SIA2008-1965. "][/caption] If you put it on Flickr, will they come? Well in this case, the answer is, "yes." In March 2009 we posted a number of images of women

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    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire

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    Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words

    • Date: July 10, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had

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  7. John Bull Loaned to Dallas Arts District

    John Bull Loaned to Dallas Arts District

    • Date: 1984
    • Creator: Long, Eric
    • Creator: Long, Eric

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  9. The original black-paged album, a document box with archival file folders for historic documents and oversize pictures, and the new preservation album, with the photos stabilized with Mylar corners (also, note a piece of thick paper, acrylic square, and the small glass frog paperweight, which were placed on the photograph to keep it in place while the corners were slipped on from the sides).

    Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project

    • Date: November 24, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull

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  11. SI History Chronology

    Smokey Bear Arrives at National Zoological Park

    • Date: June 30, 1950

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  13. An aerial view from the southwest of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1993.

    Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals

    • Date: July 18, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.

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  15. Finding Aid

    SIA RU000449, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) Exhibitions Coordinator, Exhibition Records, 1982-1991

    • Date: 1982 1982-1991
    • Creator: National Museum of American Art. Exhibitions Coordinator
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  17. Mean Temperatures Table, Washington Territory Stations

    Mean Temperatures Table, Washington Territory Stations

    • Date: 1849-1859
    • Creator: Unknown
    • Creator: Unknown

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  19. Field Book

    North American nest-record card program: BW 1986.

    • Date: 1970, 1972, 1974, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986 1970 1986
    • Creator: Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center‏

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  21. Paricutin volcano in its Developmental Stage

    Paricutin volcano in its Developmental Stage

    • Date: May 24, 1943
    • Creator: Foshag, William F
    • Creator: Foshag, William F

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  23. Letter to Herbert Friedmann from S. Dillon Ripley

    Letter to Herbert Friedmann from S. Dillon Ripley

    • Date: July 16, 1944
    • Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001
    • Creator: Ripley, Sidney Dillon 1913-2001

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