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    1. SI History Chronology

      "Florafest" Opens at Botanical Garden

      • Date: March 14, 1980

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    3. Botanic Garden (Congressional)

      Botanic Garden (Congressional)

      • Date: 1919 C. 1920-1924
      • Creator: Gruber, Martin A

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      Smithsonian Gardens

      • Date: September 4, 2018
      • Description: During debates about the Smithsonian’s founding, the idea of using James Smithson’s bequest for a botanic garden was included in several drafts of the bill considered by Congress. In 1850, President Millard Fillmore commissioned America’s preeminent landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing to design plans for the National Mall, including grounds around the Smithsonian Castle,

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    7. SI History Bibliography

      The Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences: A Washington Society of 1816-1838, which Established a Museum and Botanic Garden under Government Patronage

      • Date: 1917
      • Creator: Rathbun, Richard 1852-1918
      • Creator: Rathbun, Richard 1852-1918

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    9. Close-up photograph of Columbus.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Joy Columbus

      • Date: January 6, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    11. Authority Record/EAC

      Joseph Nelson Rose Botanical Explorations in Ecuador

      • Date: 1918 - 1918

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    13. Historic Pictures

      Smithsonian Gardens

      • Date: September 5, 2018
      • Description: Smithsonian Gardens was established in 1972 as the Horticultural Services Division of the Office of Plant Services to provide appropriate landscaping outside of Smithsonian museums and decorative greenery inside Smithsonian buildings. Today, Smithsonian Gardens is an accredited museum that provides living classrooms and urban sanctuaries for Smithsonian visitors.History of

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    15. Authority Record/EAC

      Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934

      • Date: 1859 1934

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    17. Charles Stuart Gager (1872-1943), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2008-1794].

      Charles Stuart Gager (1872-1943)

      • Creator: Brooklyn Botanic Garden

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    19. SI History Chronology

      Orchids Exhibit Opens

      • Date: January 29, 2011

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    21. Authority Record/EAC

      McDougal, Daniel Trembly

      • Date: 1865 1958

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    23. Authority Record/EAC

      Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989

      • Date: 1907 1989

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