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      Fire in the Smithsonian Institution Building, January 24, 1865

      • Date: September 20, 2012
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: October 1, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    5. Two sketches of uniforms for servers for a man and woman. Both are holding trays and wearing aprons.

      Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

      • Date: July 18, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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      Description of Indian Life in Alaska

      • Date: September 17, 2012
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    9. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    11. Field notebook, 1888, notes from New York, 1888, Smithsonian Field Book Project, SIA RU007264.

      Field notebook, 1888, notes from New York

      • Date: 1888 18880918 18881015
      • Creator: Sayles, Ira

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      Exploration of the Southern Continent

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=150,left]Much of the Smithsonian's early natural history collections came from Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The fourth Annual Report (1850) discusses several Latin American expeditions, in particular the exploration of islands near Nicaragua by Ephraim G. Squier, who served as U.S. charge d'affaires

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      Henry's Science Gallery

      • Date: May 1, 2012
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      SIA RU007292, Conger, Paul S (Paul Sydney) 1897-1979, Paul S. Conger Papers, 1913-1979

      • Date: 1913 1913-1979
      • Creator: Conger, Paul S. (Paul Sydney), 1897-1979
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    19. Diary, 1937, 1937, Smithsonian Field Book Project, SIA RU007293.

      Diary, 1937

      • Date: 1937 1937 1937

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      SIA Acc. 00-075, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Botany, Flora North America Project Records, 1962-1977

      • Date: 1962 1962-1977
      • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Department of Botany
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    23. Draft of a Letter from the Columbian Institute to Congress, February 6, 1822

      Draft of a Letter from the Columbian Institute to Congress, February 6, 1822

      • Date: 1822 February 6, 1822

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