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    Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

    • Date: November 27, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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    A Short History of Photography from Cigar Box to Cell Phone

    • Date: June 23, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper, copy of the original photo by John Draper, created by Daniel Draper, 1893, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications."][/caption] Imagine that you are the first person to take a photograph. What would you

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    Answer me this?

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  7. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

    Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

    • Date: August 2, 2018
    • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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    Pickering’s Women?

    • Date: May 8, 2009
    • 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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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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    Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

    • Date: March 24, 2016
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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  15. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

    Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

    • Date: August 17, 2021
    • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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  17. Base of mud brick grainery sile at Tell Jemmeh, Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, Number 9, Fall 1974. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 416.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Exploring Lost Worlds

    • Date: January 13, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: This installment of Miscellaneous Adventures brings us to Record Unit 416 and the adventures in Smithsonian research across the world.

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    New Scopes Trial Photos on the Flickr Commons

    • Date: July 8, 2011
    • 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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    Less is More With Compressed Scanning

    • Date: March 3, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Window Necklace, by Hoong Wei Long, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] For those who continue to believe that bigger is better—that you’re better off, for example, the more megapixels your digital camera delivers—a recent article by Jordan Ellenberg in WIRED magazine suggests the opposite may be true.

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    Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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