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    Collections in Context

    • Date: March 22, 2010
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=250,right]Walking into the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History one immediately comes face to face with the Fénykövi Elephant (also affectionately known as Henry). Taken at a glance, the African elephant is impressive and imposing, standing over guests to a tune of 13 feet and 2 inches when measured at the shoulder. The Fénykövi

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    Coming Soon! Our New Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative

    • Date: April 13, 2021
    • Description: We’re excited to announce a new Smithsonian initiative to support the preservation of Smithsonian audiovisual collections!

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    Coming Soon: Smithsonian 175th Film Fest

    • Date: August 5, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Grab your popcorn! To mark the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary this year, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives will host monthly virtual programs featuring films from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives. Register today.

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    Conservation and Chrysanthemums

    • Date: September 7, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Glass lantern slide of Roscrana in Glencoe, Illinois, 1930. The garden includes white tulips, blue forget-me-nots and allee of trees. Unidentified Photographer. Archives of American Gardens, Smithsonian Institution. "][/caption] In the 1960s, during the process of planning a kitchen remodel at its headquarters in New York

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    Couriers of the Flight

    • Date: October 22, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits

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  11. Did the Curator Really Do It? Popular Culture at the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 1, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?

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  13. Digitization Sneak Peek: Summer in Phoenix (Islands)

    • Date: November 20, 2018
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: Check out a few warm weather photos from the newest digitization efforts of our Field Book Project team.

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    Ditched Once, Loved Still

    • Date: January 5, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.

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    Donkeys and Alpacas and Cows Oh My!

    • Date: May 12, 2011
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Silver Fox Rabbit at the Kid's Farm, 2008, by Meghan Murphy, National Zoological Park. "][/caption] Five years in the making, the Kid's Farm at the National Zoological Park opened in June 2004.

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    Everyone Loves a Circus

    • Date: June 2, 2010
    • Creator: Ginger Yowell
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Everything Always Looks Good Through Here

    • Date: February 9, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: John Waters’s 1998 movie Pecker is the coming-of-age story about a young man who can’t stop himself from taking pictures. “Man, everything always looks good through here!” Pecker exclaims, squinting through his viewfinder and throughout most of the film, it does. Photography is all about looking, and when it was time to invite someone to address the subject of voyeurism for

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  23. Katie Ahlfeld with Horton Hobbs Jr.’s specimens

    Fatherhood in the field: Horton Hobbs aka “Crawdaddy”

    • Date: June 19, 2016
    • Description: Horton H. Hobbs Jr. and his work in the field with his son, Horton H. Hobbs III.

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