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    1. The Normal Rock Creek by William H. Holmes

      William Henry Holmes

      • Date: November 29, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The multi-talented William Henry Holmes contributed to the Smithsonian as an artist, explorer, geologist, archeologist and museum director.

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    3. Is that you, John Quincy Adams?

      • Date: February 20, 2012
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.

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    5. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

      • Date: July 8, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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      Keeping up with our #Volunpeers – SIA’s Transcription Center Accomplishments

      • Date: September 14, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: When it comes to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, there’s always more to discover, more material with which to engage. It can be easy to lose track of just how much our crowd of #volunpeers accomplished and why it is so important to us. We’re not done yet, but after four years, it’s a good time to take a step back and see what has been accomplished through the effort of

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    9. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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    11. Color scan of a pamphlet cover with black text.

      Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 14, 2018
      • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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    13. A Monster Mash of Smithsonian History

      • Date: October 31, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We got on Photoshop and we did the monster mash. It was definitely a graveyard smash. Enjoy your safe yet spooky Halloween!

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      Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

      • Date: February 1, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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    17. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

      Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

      • Date: January 25, 2011
      • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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    19. Yak with long fur stands in the snow. It is facing the camera.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021

      • Date: October 12, 2021
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    21. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

      Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

      • Date: August 4, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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    23. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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