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      Explore the Arctic with Operation Windmill

      • Date: January 28, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: View amazing photos from Operation Windmill, a surveying expedition of Antarctica conducted by the US Navy in 1947-48.

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    3. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives: Star Search

      • Date: January 26, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    5. Color photograph of the National Postal Museum building taken from across the street.

      The National Postal Museum Still Delivers After 25 Years

      • Date: September 25, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: 25 years ago the National Postal Museum first opened its doors to the public.

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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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    9. Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2012
      • Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.

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    11. Close-up photograph of Peggy A. Loar.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Peggy A. Loar

      • Date: April 14, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    13. Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating Earth Optimism with Some Community Science

      • Date: April 27, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Since April is both Earth Month and Citizen Science Month, we’re highlighting two clips that make us optimistic for the future.

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    15. Here At The Smithsonian: The History of Aviation

      • Date: September 28, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Let’s take a look at some of the collections at the National Air and Space Museum.

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    17. Benjamin the Anti-Christ's Doomsday Prophecy

      • Date: December 21, 2012
      • Description: In 1866, Benjamin the Anti Christ predicted earthquakes, war, and brain paralysis for the world—a prophecy that reached the SI Archives.

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    19. Shark Attack Tracks

      • Date: August 8, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Research on shark attacks began at the National Museum of Natural History in 1958 when the Shark Research Panel was formed to track attacks and develop shark repellents.

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    21. New York World's Fair Map

      Walt Disney's Progressland

      • Date: July 21, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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      The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

      • Date: October 3, 2017
      • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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