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    1. Fleeing from the ruined city--California St., from Stockton to Ferry Tower, San Francisco, California, 1906, photograph by Underwood & Underwood, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, neg. no. 13496.

      The Smithsonian Seismological Institute

      • Date: August 26, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian proposed creating a Seismological Institute after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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    3. Preliminary plan for exhibition layout for Civil War Experience Civil War Photography: From the Home Front to the Battlefront.

      More of Our Favorite (Digital) Things

      • Date: November 12, 2020
      • Description: It’s time to add to our list of our favorite digital items from the Archives.

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    5. Materials scientist Dr. Odile Madden, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, studies the role of polymer-plasticizer interaction in plastic degradation and the characterization and reverse engineering of historic plastic artifacts. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Odile Madden

      • Date: January 27, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Materials scientist Dr. Odile Madden, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, studies the role of polymer-plasticizer interaction in plastic degradation and the characterization and reverse engineering of historic plastic artifacts. #Groundbreaker

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    7. Suggestion submitted by W. G. Homer, Chief of the Cabinet Shop, to the Efficiency Awards Committee, dated September 20, 1951. Record Unit 50: Office of the Secretary, records, 1949-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Miscellaneous Adventures: Awarding Excellence

      • Date: April 9, 2015
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Another Miscellaneous Adventures explores the work of Smithsonian employees and the quest for their work to be awarded.

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    9. NMAI Architectural Plan, April, 2001, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accessio

      Digital Dilemma: Preserving Computer Aided Design (CAD) Files

      • Date: December 1, 2011
      • Description: Smithsonian Institution museums, buildings, electronic records preservation, CAD files, PDF/E

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    11. Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum.

      Sneak Peek 8/5/2019

      • Date: August 5, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.

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      Made You Look!!!

      • Date: July 8, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7261" align="alignleft" width="430" caption="Advertisement on Fifth Avenue in New York City, 2010, Photo courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] You’ve probably noticed, in recent years, that in order to attract shoppers’ attention retail establishments have been filling both exterior and interior display spaces with big, colorful, and evocative

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      Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

      • Date: May 11, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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    17. A man points to a bent bolt attached to a metal support.

      The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

      • Date: August 19, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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    19. E. A. Goldman near Porto Bello, Panama, c. 1912, Seth Meek, photographer, Field Museum of Natural History Archives, neg. no. 38659.

      Connecting the Oceans: 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal

      • Date: August 14, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: 100 years ago in August of 1914, the Panama Canal opened to commercial shipping. Smithsonian scientists knew the canal would create major environmental changes and have spent the last 100 years documenting them.

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    21. Salvador Dali, New York, 1947, by Irving Penn, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist. Copyright © The Irving Penn Foundation.

      Link Love: 7/10/2015

      • Date: July 10, 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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    23. Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon

      Celebrate Our Fifth Annual Women's History Month!

      • Date: March 5, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: We're launching new images and blog post to celebrate Women's History Month.

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