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    1. Instructions for fingerprint animals from the Friend of the National Zoo publica

      Crafting from the Collections: Fingerprint Animals

      • Date: December 20, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Archives staff makes fingerprint animals based on craft activity found in zoo publication from 1970s.

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      Pictures of Pictures

      • Date: March 9, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="Heard Museum Gift Shop, by Daniel Greene, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="216" caption="Slide Carousel: Loading Slides into the Carousel 5, by rosefirerising, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] How does photography change the ways we look and learn about

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      Postcards on the Edge

      • Date: February 18, 2010
      • Description: One of the largest collections of real photo postcards at the Smithsonian can be found in the conveniently titled “post card collection” in the Eliot Elisofon Archives at the National Museum of African Art. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Madagascar - Le bel album venu de France, c. 1905, by Unknown photograher, Postcard, National Museum of African Art,

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      Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2017

      • Date: October 17, 2017
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_383399,size=180,right]Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been

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    9. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

      The Life Work of Smillie

      • Date: July 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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    11. Two photographs of a man wearing a fur coat. The hood is on in the left photo.

      Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved

      • Date: June 30, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”

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      A Camera in the Kitchen

      • Date: August 24, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_2064" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Photographs of Paul and Julia from page 262 of My Life in France, by Thérèse-Marie Blazek of feastingonpixels.blogspot.com."][/caption] If you haven’t seen Nora Ephron’s latest film Julie & Julia yet, there are several scenes, which indicate that aside from his work for the U.S. government, Julia Child’s

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    15. Alexander Wetmore, 1910.

      A Wonderful Wetmore Adventure

      • Date: May 31, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Thanks to our volunteers who transcribed the entirety of the Alexander Wetmore photo album collection!

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    17. A cat and her kittens.

      Staff Check-In: Befriending Kittens, Carving Ducks, and Perfecting the Art of the Biscuit

      • Date: July 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Nearly four months into Smithsonian’s extended telework period, we thought it would be fun to share which skills and hobbies have been getting us through this overwhelming time.

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      "If you feed them, they will come."

      • Date: May 23, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Operation Moonwatch created an international network of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteer sky-watchers of both genders and from every walk-of-life. These citizen-scientists joined professional astronomers to track and report on satellites travelling through the night sky. Food and location played a role in keeping volunteers engaged with Operation Moonwatch.

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    21. What Did the Smithsonian Exhibit When it First Opened?

      • Date: May 22, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: An overview of what the Smithsonian collected and displayed when it first opened to the public in 1855.

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      Author! Author!

      • Date: June 20, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Back in December, I wrote a post about Emory University’s efforts to make the writer Salman Rushdie’s digital files available to fans, researchers, and interested parties. A couple of days ago, I came across an interesting report about a gathering, an “unconference,” that was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which

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