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  1. Two exhibit cases on either side of a tall panel that reads: In tribute...Spencer Fullerton Baird 1823-87 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1878-87.

    Archives Puzzles: Exhibiting Baird

    • Date: May 17, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  3. Statue of a toga-clad George Washington in the corner of a building.

    Archives Puzzles: Toga! Toga!

    • Date: February 15, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    Link Love: 1/22/2010

    • Date: January 22, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

    • Date: October 3, 2017
    • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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  9. Opening of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1968.

    Design + Archives: Posters

    • Date: October 6, 2016
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.

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  11. Cover of OPA Negative Log

    Office of Public Affairs Photographic Collection

    • Date: September 19, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Highlighting the photographic holdings at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History

    • Date: July 17, 2018
    • Description: Ron Vasile teaches AP U.S. History, U.S. History and Anthropology at Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois.We bring to you the story of a dedicated naturalist turned museum pioneer.

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  15. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

    Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

    • Date: January 25, 2011
    • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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  17. Untitled c. 1905, RU7179_Box1_F21_Heller05 [SPI_1655].

    An Ode to the Bicycle

    • Date: May 8, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Time to dust off your velocipedes and bone-shakers! The League of American Bicyclists have declared May to be “National Bike Month” and have several events lined up to celebrate biking everywhere; Bike to Work Day (May 16), Bike to School Day (May 7), and Cyclofemme (May 11) .I love picking a theme or keyword and browsing through the Smithsonian’s collections.

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    Link Love: 2/27/2015

    • Date: February 27, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    See Here: 3/3/2010

    • Date: March 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Rocket Row along the West Side of the Arts and Industries Building before the National Air and Space Museum was built. The four missiles on exhibit are: From left to right, the Jupiter C, which launched Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite; the Vanguard; the Polaris, the first U.S. submarine-launched ICBM; and the Atlas,

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  23. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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