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    Ricc Ferrante

    • Date: April 5, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. Aerial view of Barro Colorado Island at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 86-10915.

    The Legend of the Beer Machine

    • Date: September 30, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Oktoberfest is here! So sit back relax and learn about a Smithsonian beer legend!

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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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    SIA Acc. 17-266, Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Event Files, 1997-2000

    • Date: 1997 1997-2000
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    • Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

      • Date: January 19, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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      SIA Acc. 82-006, Smithsonian Institution Division of Performing Arts, Records, 1967-1980

      • Date: 1967 1967-1980
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Division of Performing Arts
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA RU000265, Anacostia Neighborhood Museum Office of the Director, Records, 1966-1975

      • Date: 1966 1966-1975
      • Creator: Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. Office of the Director
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 21, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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      The National Park that Never Was

      • Date: August 25, 2016
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: This month marks the centennial of the National Park Service—learn about one that was planned but never built.

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    • Program for Entertainment onboard S.S. Republic, October 10, 1925. Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, c. 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-007141.

      Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home

      • Date: October 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of

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