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    “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

    • Date: August 21, 2018
    • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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  3. Black and white half-plate daguerreotype of a woman seen from the chest up, image is in a black frame

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

    • Date: May 22, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.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

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol O’Donnell

    • Date: November 4, 2020
    • 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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  7. Flyer with a sketch of a Kwanzaa table, a list of symbols, and a list of the seven principles.

    Celebrating Kwanzaa at the Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: December 5, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.

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  9. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

    • Date: May 12, 2022
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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  11. This photo shows the measurement - 2 feet - of the front foot of the elephant donated by Josef J. Fénykövi to the Smithsonian Institution.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: October 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  13. Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge outside White House, Washington, D.C.; by Harris & Ewing; 1924, glass plate negative; Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress; reproduction number LC-DIG-hec-44616.

    Stumbling Upon . . . Calvin Coolidge

    • Date: December 5, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The science and method of conducting research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  15. Screenshot of the Archives' new website pointing out our History Section.

    Welcome to Smithsonian History on Our New Website!

    • Date: October 18, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Portrait of Thomas William Smillie

    Celebrating 120 Years of the Smithsonian’s Photographic History Collection

    • Date: July 14, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution has been collecting “specimens” related to the history of photography since photography was still considered a new technology? Learn about the evolution of our photography collection!

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  19. E. A. Goldman near Porto Bello, Panama, c. 1912, Seth Meek, photographer, Field Museum of Natural History Archives, neg. no. 38659.

    Connecting the Oceans: 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal

    • Date: August 14, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: 100 years ago in August of 1914, the Panama Canal opened to commercial shipping. Smithsonian scientists knew the canal would create major environmental changes and have spent the last 100 years documenting them.

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  21. Message sent by Alfred Vail and transcribed by Samuel Morse.

    A Forgotten History: Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse

    • Date: May 24, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  23. Tweet from @jacobharris

    Hunting for Elephants in Archives

    • Date: February 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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