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    1. The Life Behind the Smile

      • Date: December 1, 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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    3. Shortsnout Scorpionfish X-Ray, 1908, Photo Sandra J. Raredon.

      Link Love: 3/16/2012

      • Date: March 16, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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    5. Link Love: 3/29/2019

      • Date: March 29, 2019
      • 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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    7. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

      Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

      • Date: December 26, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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    9. A boy and a girl harness a prop mule in an exhibit. The boy is in a wheelchair.

      Hands On. Hands Off.

      • Date: December 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Will such things as the Hands History Room ever exist again?

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    11. Forest of Mississippi Valley, Black Walnut Tree

      Robert Ridgway: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

      • Date: April 30, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Robert Ridgway, known primarily for his extensive contributions to ornithology and as curator of birds for the United States National Museum, was also a keen observer of the changing landscape in areas where he conducted his detailed studies.

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    13. Estimated Route Welty and Palmer Traveled.

      A Race On the Wild Side

      • Date: February 21, 2013
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Ride along as two young boys go on the adventure of lifetime, racing a stolen horse and buggy around Washington, D.C.

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    15. Blog Post

      What’s in a Name? Uncovering Early Women Computers

      • Date: December 3, 2019
      • Description: We’re uncovering names of some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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      Where to Begin? Determining Founding Dates in ForestGEO’s Global Network of Research Plots

      • Date: April 21, 2020
      • Description: Behind the seemingly objective certitude of a date lies an argument about what counts.

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    19. A military pension card for Harrison Lomax. He filed in Virginia and is listed in the class

      Harrison Lomax: Smithsonian Employee, Civil War Veteran, Husband, Father

      • Date: September 1, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As a laborer at the Smithsonian from 1882 until his death in 1918, Harrison Lomax served the Institution’s top leaders. A letter in our collections that he wrote to Secretary Samuel P. Langley is an example of the ways in which African American employees advocated for themselves in order to earn promotions and raises.

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