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  1. 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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  3. Link Love: 10/19/2018

    • Date: October 19, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old

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  5. The world’s first airplane was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and flown for the first time in Kitty Hawk, N.C. on Dec. 17, 1903. In addition to making those historic first flights, the Wright Flyer embodies fundamental elements of all subsequent airplanes.

    Link Love: 11/15/2013

    • Date: November 15, 2013
    • 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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    Smithsonian’s First Earth Day

    • Date: April 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: How did the Smithsonian take part in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970?

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    Link Love: 9/10/2010

    • Date: September 10, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="168" caption="Canna indica L., identified by P.J.M. Maas & H. Maas, Cusco, Peru, National Museum of Natural History, Botany Department, Catalog Number: 1998001."][/caption] The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Botany Department just added over 1,300 images to the Smithsonian Collection Search Center! Some gorgeous

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    Tragedy, Towers, and Romance at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 14, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6823,size=150,left] On this Valentine’s Day, you might wonder if Cupid has ever shot any arrows around the Institution. The Smithsonian has been the site of many romances and even some tragedies, so today I’ll tell a story which combines both. In the process of recording his oral history interviews, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, a physical anthropologist at the

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  13. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

    • Date: June 29, 2021
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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  15. Herbert Hoover before becoming President

    Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

    • Date: August 11, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

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  17. A Weddell seal in the ice hole at Station 61B (August 16, 1961). Note the metal casing which lines the hole and the canvas cover used to close off the area between the floor of the shack and the top of the casing. Photograph by Jack L. Littlepage. Accession 15-281: John H. Dearborn Papers, 1950-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-008032.

    Antarctic Explorations: The Diary of John H. Dearborn

    • Date: July 30, 2015
    • Description: With the recent acquisition of the papers of scientist John H. Dearborn, here is an introduction to his life and research at the edge of the world.

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    Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

    • Date: December 23, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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  21. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

    • Date: December 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Science Service, Up Close: "Stealth Authors" and An Appreciation of Honesty

    • Date: March 24, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: "Stealth Authors" and an appreciation of honesty when it came to women writers of science in the early 20th century.

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