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    Link Love: 5/13/2011

    • Date: May 13, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Six children play on the sculpture "Uncle Beazley," the 25 foot long replica of a triceratops, placed on the Mall in front of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 23, Negative Number:

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  3. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  5. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

    • Date: March 31, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: 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 researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  7. Here At The Smithsonian: Traveling Exhibitions

    • Date: November 30, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: As we close out this blog series, let’s take a look at two past traveling exhibitions.

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    Who Wears Short Shorts?

    • Date: December 2, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    There’s Something About Mary

    • Date: February 14, 2013
    • Description: A special valentine sent to Mary Henry, daughter of Joseph Henry, the Smithsonian’s first Secretary.

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    Calling all Flashlights!

    • Date: September 22, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2093" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="R•I•T Big Shot No. 1, HIGHLAND HOSPITAL, Rochester, New York USA, produced by The Highland Hospital, The RIT Biomedical Photographic Communications Dept., Other Students, Faculty & Friends of RIT Photography, December 4, 1987."][/caption] In December of 1987, professors William DuBois and Michael Peres of

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  15. Page with a sketch of planets or a more general scene of space. The figures are labeled with letters.

    Link Love: 12/14/2018

    • Date: December 14, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Link Love: 8/6/2010

    • Date: August 6, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. A woman smiles directly at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Tuliza Fleming

    • Date: December 26, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Tuliza Fleming, Curator of American Art at the National Museum of African American History and Culture since 2007, worked to build the museum's foundational American art collection, served as the lead curator for the inaugural exhibition Visual Art and the American Experience, curated Clementine Hunter: Life on Melrose Plantation, and co-curated the traveling exhibition

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  21. Installation of a restored segregation-era railway car, circa 1918 in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, November 17, 2013. Courtesy of NMAAHC.

    National Museum of African American History and Culture - Happy 10th Anniversary!

    • Date: December 16, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Take a moment to celebrate the 10th anniversary of legislation that created the National Museum of African American History and Culture!

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    Sybil Hamlet’s History of the National Zoo

    • Date: May 17, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that the first beaver came to the National Zoological Park in 1894? Or that the first animals on the official zoo grounds were two Indian Elephants, Dunk and Gold Dust? Surely, you knew that the Dusit Zoo in Bangkok donated an albino Asiatic turtle to the National Zoo in 1966? You didn’t know that? Well, thanks to the work of Sybil Hamlet in 1985, you can now

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