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  1. Cathedral?, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-003197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Where Was Watson?

    • Date: September 15, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Help the Smithsonian Institution Archives identify the locations of Watson Davis’s vacation photographs from August and September 1925.

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  3. NBC news commentator Edwin Newman

    Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions

    • Date: July 19, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting

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    Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

    • Date: February 27, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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    Perspectives

    • Date: February 8, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

    • Date: September 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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  11. Hallie Jenkins, Science Service Sales and Advertising Manager

    Science Service, Up Close: Hallie Jenkins, On the Road, On Her Own Terms

    • Date: March 16, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In January 1926, Science Service took a chance on smart, plucky Hallie Jenkins, hiring the 27-year-old as their sales representative. During the following months, Jenkins traveled on her own throughout the Midwest, selling science to newspapers large and small. By the end of the year, she become the organization’s sales and advertising manager.

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    Par for the Course

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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    Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

    • Date: June 12, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

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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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  19. Students who volunteered as subjects in the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test,” August 14-16, 1925. Left to right: Louise Omwake, Katherine Tait Omwake, Thelma Hunt, and Alice Haines.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs

    • Date: August 18, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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  21. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

    Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

    • Date: March 6, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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  23. Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

    Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner

    • Date: November 12, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.

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