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  1. SI History Chronology

    Fire Strikes Smithsonian Building

    • Date: January 24, 1865

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  3. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 12-086, National Zoological Park (U.S.), Publications, c. 1894-2010

    • Date: 1894 1894-2010 c 1894-2010
    • Creator: National Zoological Park.
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  5. SI History Bibliography

    Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century

    • Date: 1998
    • Creator: Barber, James G
    • Creator: Barber, James G

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  7. Blog Post

    The Smithsonian’s First Garden

    • Date: May 31, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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  9. Diary no. II [2], January 29, 1928-May 27, 1928

    Diary no. II [2], January 29, 1928-May 27, 1928

    • Date: 1928 19280129 19280527
    • Creator: Graham, David Crockett

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  11. Webpage

    Career as Teacher

    • Date: April 18, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  13. John Bull on Its Anniversary Run, 1981

    John Bull on Its Anniversary Run, 1981

    • Date: 1981
    • Creator: Vogel, R
    • Creator: Vogel, R

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  15. Blog Post

    Slowly (the photographs) turn…

    • Date: April 8, 2010
    • Description: Like Lou Costello or Mo of the Three Stooges whenever I hear the name “Niagara Falls” I pause and take a turn. One turn is to, of course, remember the classic comedy routine (when I was growing up it seemed to play on TV all the time) that involves the interactions between a once prosperous and educated bum and an unsuspecting citizen who doesn’t have a clue about the

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  17. Blog Post

    Most Likely to be Succeeded

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Posing with a yearbook picture of myself, by Billy Mabray, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I’m a fan of yearbooks. I was an editor of mine in college, a somewhat unusual, multi-volume, and boxed object that included two books, a booklet, a brochure, and (it being the late sixties) a balloon. Back then, we

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  19. Faded color map of the United States as it was in 1839.

    Pursuing Knowledge in Unfamiliar Country

    • Date: November 15, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: In mid-19th century America, some believed that world-class discoveries came exclusively from Europe. But early Smithsonian leaders had a sense of urgency to disseminate an authoritative body of knowledge, pursue further discoveries, and provide a deeper understanding to the public at a time when American society was changing.

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  21. Smithsonian Legal Document

    Need to Strengthen Financial Accountability to the Congress, Smithsonian Institution

    • Date: 03/31/1977
    • Creator: United States General Accounting Office
    • Creator: United States General Accounting Office

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  23. Smithsonian Legal Document

    An Act To provide for a National Cultural Center which will be constructed, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, on a site made available in the District of Columbia

    • Date: 1959 09/02/1958
    • Creator: 85th Congress, Sess. 2, 1958
    • Creator: 85th Congress, Sess. 2, 1958

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