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  1. Document

    Torch 11/1967

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1967 Box 1 Folder 11

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  3. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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  5. A man sits at a desk with an open book.

    Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

    • Date: November 7, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.

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  7. Finding Aid

    SIA RU000190, United States National Museum Office of the Director, Records, circa 1921-1973

    • Date: 1921 1921-1973 circa 1921-1973
    • Creator: United States National Museum. Office of the Director
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  9. Blog Post

    Are You There?

    • Date: July 29, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,

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  11. Finding Aid

    SIA RU009591, S. Dillon Ripley Oral History Interview, 1977-1993

    • Date: 1977 1977-1993
    • Creator: Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001, interviewee
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  13. Finding Aid

    SIA RU009591, S. Dillon Ripley Oral History Interview, 1977-1993

    • Date: 1977 1977-1993
    • Creator: Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001, interviewee
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. Finding Aid

    SIA RU009565, Tropical Rainforest Exhibit Oral History Interviews, 1992, 1994

    • Date: 1992 1992-1994 1992, 1994
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  17. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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  19. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 06-123, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Office of the Registrar, Loan Files (Incoming Loans), 1984-1999

    • Date: 1984 1984-1999
    • Creator: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Office of the Registrar
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  21. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 02-186, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records, circac 1986-2001

    • Date: 1986 1986-2001 circac 1986-2001
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  23. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 12-096, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of Public Affairs, Audiovisual Recordings, circa 1983-2009

    • Date: 1983 1983-2009 circa 1983-2009
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of Public Affairs
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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