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  1. Blog Post

    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    SIA RU007431, Whipple, Fred L (Fred Lawrence) 1906-2004, Fred Lawrence Whipple Papers, circa 1927-1983

    • Date: 1927 1927-1983 circa 1927-1983
    • Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 04-183, Whipple, Fred L (Fred Lawrence) 1906-2004, Fred Lawrence Whipple Papers, c. 1932-2004

    • Date: 1932 1932-2004 c 1932-2004
    • Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Jacob Kainen (1909-2001) Curator/Printmaker

    • Date: January 31, 2017
    • Description: Jacob Kainen trained as a painter at Brooklyn's Pratt Institute and experimented with printmaking while employed in the graphics program of the Federal Art Project in the 1930's. Kainen, a member of the New York avant-garde in the 1930s, came to the Smithsonian in 1942 and served as graphic arts curator through the 1960's. His friendships in the New York art world assisted his

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    Lonnie Bunch

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Description: Historian Lonnie Bunch is the founding director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Smithsonian’s 19th museum. Growing up with a love of history and a sense that African Americans deserved “a voice,” his education and early career gave him the research, museum, and management experience that allowed him to successfully develop an idea into a

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    MasterPlan-layout

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    • A boy and a girl harness a prop mule in an exhibit. The boy is in a wheelchair.

      Hands On. Hands Off.

      • Date: December 14, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Will such things as the Hands History Room ever exist again?

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      Torch Summer/1972

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1972 Box 1 Folder Summer

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      SIA2011-0830

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      • Ateles ssp. (monkeys), Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1958-1961

        Ateles ssp. (monkeys), Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1958-1961

        • Date: 1958-1961 19581002 19610606
        • Creator: Moynihan, M.

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        An Artist's View: William Henry Holmes

        • Date: April 4, 2017
        • Description: [view in Spanish]As a young artist living in Washington, William H. Holmes began sketching specimens for scientists at the U.S. National Museum. Based on that experience, he was invited to join the U.S. GeologicalSurvey of the Territories under the command of Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden in 1872.During his early years in the western territories, Holmes refined his skills as an

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      • Stratosphere on the Street in Washington D.C., April 15, 1936, by Ruel P. Tolman, Record Unit 7433 - Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 1909-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2011-2366 or 32233-3.

        A Mysterious Sphere

        • Date: July 24, 2014
        • Description: Can you help identify this exploration vessel and what it’s doing on the streets of Washington?

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