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      Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right

      • Date: April 20, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Perfect, by Bruce Berrien, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] At the turn of the 21st century, as federal organizations and private corporations were competing against each other in the race to decode the human genome, a number of exhibitions that explored areas where genetic science and visual imagery

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      More Thoughts on the Art of Science

      • Date: January 7, 2010
      • Description: In the most recent issue of Ezra (Winter 2010, pg. 3), Cornell University’s quarterly magazine, there is a small feature about photographs by graduate student Heather Flores of fruit fly ovaries. These images won the NYSTEM Stem Cell Awareness Day Image Contest. Besides the fact that there is a contest devoted to images that demonstrate the visual beauty of stem cell science,

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    5. Photos from a 1976 press release kit.

      Documenting the Opening of a Museum

      • Date: September 27, 2016
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A look at how documenting the opening of a museum has changed in the age of social media.

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    9. Smithsonian Institution flag football team versus Howard University Hospital, 1980.

      Welcome to Smithsonian Football!

      • Date: February 7, 2017
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: A brief history of the Smithsonian staff flag football team.

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    11. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

      The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

      • Date: May 13, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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      Par for the Course

      • Date: July 18, 2011
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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    15. brightly enshrined orange/red room filled with brightly colored boxes with buddha statues on top

      Link Love: 10/6/2017

      • Date: October 6, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Buddhist Shrine Room is coming back better than ever with the re-opening of the Freer Sackler. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Your last chance to catch the major David Bowie retrospective is at the Brooklyn Museum March 2nd-July 15th, 2018. [via Art Newspaper]Get your gif on this month with DPLA's annual contest, GIF IT UP!Five previously-unpublished Kurt Vonnegut stories

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    17. Rube Goldberg and wife Irma interacting with the machine exhibits and attendees riding a bicycle. Photographs being taken of Goldberg sitting near his cartoons speaking to the press. Also, dinner table seating with the Goldbergs, Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and NMHT Director Daniel Boorstin.

      Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg

      • Date: November 24, 2020
      • Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have

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    19. Third Annual National Portrait Gallery Teen Portrait Competition

      Link Love: 10/2/2015

      • Date: October 2, 2015
      • 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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      Link Love: 4/11/2014

      • Date: April 11, 2014
      • 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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    23. Link Love: 4/19/2019

      • Date: April 19, 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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