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  1. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

    • Date: March 31, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  3. A man points to a bent bolt attached to a metal support.

    The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

    • Date: August 19, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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  5. Painting of the Renwick Gallery, by Briggs, Frederic Schuler, c. 1870, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, SIA2011-1143 and 50444 CN and 2002-12221.

    The Renwick Rises Again

    • Date: November 19, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Renwick Gallery has just reopened after a two-year renovation, reinventing itself yet again. Its history has mirrored the history of the nation.

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  7. 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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  9. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design + Archives: Star Search

    • Date: January 26, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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  11. Resurrection City, National Mall, Washington, DC, 1968.

    The Smithsonian and the Poor People's Campaign

    • Date: January 17, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian served as neighbor to the Poor People's Campaign in 1968 and still tells its story almost 50 years later.

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  13. Peacock in the courtyard of Freer Gallery of Art.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2022

    • Date: January 12, 2022
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    What He Wrote and Where He Wrote It

    • Date: December 15, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Salman Rushdie's archives, featured in an Emory University publication, by Georgia Popplewell, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Back in October I talked—with great interest and at length—with Anne Van Camp, director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives, about the various

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  17. Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley

    Sneak Peek 5/6/2019

    • Date: May 6, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley, a 22-foot long replica of a dinosaur triceratops, 81-6787-23A.

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  19. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

    • Date: December 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  21. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2019

    • Date: September 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this summer at SIA.

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    Will the Real Georgia O'Keeffe Please Stand Up?

    • Date: February 23, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="Georgia O'Keefe at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) with Rene Magritte's sculpture "Delusions of Grandeur," 11 November 1977, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1977, Negative Number: 92-1789."][/caption] It is always fascinating

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