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    1. View of the Smithsonian Castle in the distance behind a wall of trees, from downtown Washington

      The Smithsonian Castle Construction Begins

      • Date: March 19, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or the “Castle,” is the most iconic of all the Smithsonian’s 769 facilities, which include its nineteen museums, nine research centers, National Zoo, and all of its other establishments. The Castle was the first building constructed specifically for the Smithsonian after it was founded in 1846. On March 19, 1847, a contract was signed with

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    3. Tamar stands in front of the doors of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives office. The sign reads: Smithsonian Libraries in the glass. The doors are gold. Tamar is wearing a long black and white dress, a statement necklace, and black tights.

      An Interview with Director Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

      • Date: February 4, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives recently welcomed Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty as our inaugural director. Join us as we get to know the new leader of our organization!

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    5. Buddha draped in robes

      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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    7. Two-Year Old Boy Sitting in Basket 1909, NAA INV 06226600, Glass Negative, National Anthropological Archives.

      You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist

      • Date: November 10, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting

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    9. The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been

      • Date: September 20, 2012
      • Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.

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    11. A sketch by William Henry Holmes, Cozumel, Mexico, 1895.

      Sketching with William Henry Holmes

      • Date: December 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Celebrate the life and work of William Henry Holmes with coloring pages created from sketches in his field notes!

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    13. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2009-4133.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds

      • Date: April 7, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.

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    15. Google Art Project now has 3D objects from a variety of museums and galleries, including animal skulls!

      Link Love: 4/10/2015

      • Date: April 10, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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      Smithsonian Volunteers: Thanks for the Time and Talent!

      • Date: April 6, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: In celebration of over a century of volunteer contributions at the Smithsonian, explore the work of some stellar volunteers from our collection.

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    19. Two men hold a young girl up in a trash can.The girl is looking directly at the camera.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2022

      • Date: April 28, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    21. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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    23. Cover of sheet music for the Transit of Venus.

      Marching Our Way to the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 6, 2018
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Sure, you’ve heard of famed composer John Philip Sousa. But did you know that Sousa composed a march just for the Smithsonian?On November 6, 1854, the “March King” John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. With roots in Southeast Washington near the Marine Barracks, where his father played trombone in the United States Marine Band, it should have been of no surprise to

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