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    “Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo

    • Date: April 14, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.

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    In a Smithsonian Archive Minute

    • Date: January 28, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A visitor to the National Portrait Gallery takes a picture of a friend next to the newly-installed, temporary portrait of comedian Stephen Colbert, by Andrew Deci, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] To judge from a walk I just took across the Smithsonian Mall, visitors to our Nation’s capitol are doing nothing

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    The Smithsonian Castle: Tragic Death, a Mystery, and Strange Occurrences

    • Date: March 29, 2016
    • Description: On this day in 1850, a young man was killed in the Castle, the first of four deaths to occur within its walls. William H. Page was working in the building, which was still under construction at the time, when he fell to his death.

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    Calling all Flashlights!

    • Date: September 22, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2093" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="R•I•T Big Shot No. 1, HIGHLAND HOSPITAL, Rochester, New York USA, produced by The Highland Hospital, The RIT Biomedical Photographic Communications Dept., Other Students, Faculty & Friends of RIT Photography, December 4, 1987."][/caption] In December of 1987, professors William DuBois and Michael Peres of

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  9. Rolls of film featuring a celebration of Juneteenth at the Anacostia Community Museum. Scenes include people chatting, a clown in a crowd, and people doing crafts at a table.

    When did the Smithsonian Begin Celebrating Juneteenth?

    • Date: June 9, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: African American communities have celebrated Juneteenth for more than 150 years. When did the Smithsonian begin hosting programs to commemorate the nation’s second independence day?

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  11. Finding the Digital Treasures

    • Date: November 1, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Highlighting some of the Archives favorite digital objects in its collections.

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  13. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  15. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

    Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

    • Date: January 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire

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  19. John M. McFarland to Alfred Vail, June 17, 1846.

    A Terrible Mother’s Day

    • Date: May 16, 2017
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: A cautionary tale from RU 7055, the Vail Telegraph Collection, on how NOT to celebrate Mother’s Day.

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  21. The first page of Margaret S. Collins’ memorial service pamphlet.

    A Legend in Termite Field Biology

    • Date: March 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.

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  23. Table of what happened to the different prints. Alt text in images explains discoloring.

    When Digital Print Met Water

    • Date: March 26, 2020
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: What happens when your digital prints get wet and why is this important? Answers below!

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