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    1. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

      • Date: October 15, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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      It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

      • Date: September 15, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

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    5. Introducing Here At The Smithsonian

      • Date: December 29, 2020
      • Description: We are starting a new monthly blog series featuring episodes of Here At The Smithsonian.

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      Meanwhile, back on earth... A Slideshow

      • Date: June 5, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Earth, 1971, Apollo 15, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Center for Earth and Planetary Studies"][/caption] The planets and outer space used to seem far, far away from our lives down on earth. But as this slideshow reveals, by the mid-twentieth century—with Ford Galaxies in our driveways, satellite-shaped barbeque

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      17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

      • Date: August 10, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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    11. Model of the Quadrangle Viewed from the Southwest, c. 1979.

      Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation

      • Date: November 20, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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    13. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

      Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

      • Date: November 14, 2013
      • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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    15. Star-Spangled Banner, National Museum of American History, c. 1964, MAH-P6427.

      American History, 50 Years of Exhibits

      • Date: May 15, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A collection of images documenting some of the National Museum of American History's exhibits since its opening 50 years ago.

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    17. Young girl playing a violin with a piano and yellow electric guitar in the background.

      Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar

      • Date: March 5, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.

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