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      Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace

      • Date: September 19, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.

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    3. 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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      Wartime in Washington—Mary Henry on the First Manassas

      • Date: July 21, 2011
      • Description: Throughout the next months, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will feature posts related to the Smithsonian and the Civil War in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. On July 21, 1861, the First Battle of Manassas raged just thirty miles southwest of Washington DC and the Smithsonian Institution Building that housed Secretary Joseph Henry and his family.

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    7. Secretary G. Wayne Clough at Smithsonian Staff Picnic, 2008.

      Engineering a Smithsonian for the 21st Century

      • Date: December 18, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: As the twelfth Smithsonian Secretary, G. Wayne Clough, retires, historian Pamela Henson looks back on his impact on the Smithsonian in 6 ½ short years – creating a positive dynamic, fostering environmental responsibility, and stimulating collaborations across the Institution.

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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    11. A construction drawing that includes the exact dimensions of a piece of art in front of the National Air and Space Museum. It is tall and thin.

      Adventures in Adopt-a-Book

      • Date: April 21, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Hear from Archives staff about some of the items up for “adoption” at the 2022 Adopt-a-Book salons and what makes them so special.

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    13. Portrait of Roxie Laybourne

      Sharing A Love of Birds: Roxie Laybourne

      • Date: January 5, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_308449,size=250,left]Though Roxie Laybourne may be a well-known topic here in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, there is a good reason she is so popular. From good advice to her pioneering career to modern day inspiration, her work offers new insight each time we turn to it. Laybourne’s interest in natural history began long before she began her

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      Fun Facts: The Surprises You Find When Writing Wikipedia With the Archives

      • Date: May 31, 2012
      • Description: Learn some of the surprising facts about people and places from the Smithsonian Institution Archives that we have came across while writing Wikipedia articles using SIA materials.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Garden

      • Date: May 31, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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    19. A gray line drawing on a white field depicts four views of a box: at top left, a view from above showing the document and a support tube in the lower tray of the box; at bottom left, a cross-section view of the same; at top right, a cross-section view of the box lid, showing a pressure plate occupying the lower two-thirds of the lid; at bottom right, a view from below of the same, looking up into the lid and showing an area removed from the pressure plate to avoid damaging the wax seal.

      Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!

      • Date: July 28, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.

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    21. Stereoview showing a piece of mummy cartonnage (wrappings) painted with hieroglyphics, from Saqqara, Egypt, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018

      • Date: September 27, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this summer 2018 by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      Wisdom is in the head, and not in the beard...

      • Date: March 24, 2010
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution

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