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    1. Slight damage on a piece of paper. There is a section of brown, dotted coloring on the parchment.

      I.D. This! Parchment

      • Date: November 21, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: For the next installment in our I.D. This! series, learn about parchment and how we identify it in our collections.

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    3. Color image of a watercolor painting of cream cups

      A Friendship Revealed – and Revived?

      • Date: March 8, 2018
      • Description: It was, most likely, a foggy day in Oakland in 1882 when Miss Adelia Gates crossed the intersection of 12th and Washington streets and approached the Lemmon Herbarium.At 57, Adelia Gates was an accomplished artist and well-accustomed to new situations. She’d traveled alone to Scandinavia, Mallorca, Italy, and Algeria, and she’d lived in Switzerland while studying watercolor

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    5. An image from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories website showing Barro Colorado Island an the location of the 50-ha plot and a visualization of data collected by the Forest Dynamics Project.

      How to Fit a Forest in Five Boxes

      • Date: February 11, 2014
      • Description: Field maps illuminate the origins of the Smithsonian’s long-term forest-monitoring project.

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      Fame ... By Any Other Name

      • Date: March 20, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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      Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

      • Date: March 11, 2014
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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    11. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

      Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

      • Date: August 10, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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      Photos, Guns, Africa, Stanley, & Kalulu

      • Date: August 26, 2009
      • 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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    15. Portrait photograph of Evangelestia-Dougherty. Trees are in the background.

      Smithsonian Names Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

      • Date: October 6, 2021
      • Description: On October 5, 2021, the Smithsonian announced that Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty will be the new director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Nov. 6.

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    17. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

      Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

      • Date: April 27, 2017
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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    19. The Journey to Recovery: A Tale of Earthquake Damage and Repair in Haiti

      • Date: February 23, 2012
      • Description: The story of the damage context and advanced treatment of a Stivenson Magloire painting broken into fragments by the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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    21. Ruderman family photo, 1900

      Archiving Family Traditions

      • Date: December 10, 2013
      • Description: Holiday family traditions are some of the things that people look forward to throughout the year. For my family, that would be the annual Christmas party. This is an unusual tradition in a Jewish family that emigrated from Russia at the turn of the 20th century.That's my Grandmother, Sally, on the lower left, her 4 brothers and sisters and her mother. It was her younger

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    23. Drawing of the U. S. National Museum, South Front and Surroundings

      The Birth of a Building: Constructing the United States National Museum

      • Date: June 20, 2013
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The birth of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, as told through construction photographs.

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