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    Fame ... By Any Other Name

    • Date: March 20, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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    The Smithsonian in Books

    • Date: July 10, 2013
    • Description: A list of books which reference the Smithsonian.

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    Microsoft Word - SGB Letter Writing EduAct - for merge.doc

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    • Red and white pamplet with two small photographs of people on wooden ski lifts on each side of it. Text reads

      Slide Digitization Goes Stereo

      • Date: August 7, 2018
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: Stereo slides present unique challenges for digitization. Here are a few tips for documenting your collection.

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    • Cheetah Cubs, May 23, 2012, courtesy of the National Zoological Park.

      Be a Friend in 2013!

      • Date: January 29, 2013
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives needs your help in strengthening our collections through donations of your time and resources. Please check out our new online donations page.

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      JHP_Father_of_the_Weather_Service.pdf

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      • Backmark - William L. Price

        Baby Got Backmark: A Closer Look at Card Photograph Mounts

        • Date: May 6, 2021
        • Creator: Marguerite Roby
        • Description: A look at the elaborate graphics photographers used to advertise their businesses on the backs of 19th century card mounted photographs.

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      • Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

        The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

        • Date: June 8, 2017
        • Creator: Jennifer Wright
        • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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        Torch 07/1956

        • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, Box 1 Folder 7

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        JHP_Interruptions_and_Embarassments_-_The_Smtihsonian _during_the_Civil_War.pdf

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        • 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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        • Field Work and a World War

          • Date: July 12, 2012
          • Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.

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