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  1. A mixed media collection recently received from the National Zoological Park. Un

    How the Archives Gets its Records (or, Golden Lion Tamarins Galore)

    • Date: October 27, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    How Hot Was It At Bull Run?

    • Date: July 20, 2011
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    If a huge mass of garbage falls in the ocean and no one sees it, does it exist?

    • Date: May 22, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The first thing that I thought of when we started discussing our new call for entry, "seeing other worlds," was Google Earth. When Google Earth first came out in 2004, I remember the novelty of being able to zoom into my hometown to point out details to college friends, and having them pan across their own homes and favorite travel spots. We could travel across the globe

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  7. The mystery hairs, November 1, 2013, by Andrea Hall, Accession 12-320 - Edward William Nelson Field Notes, 1869-1886, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Porcupine, Deer, or Other? A Field Book Mystery

    • Date: November 12, 2013
    • Description: Use of microscopy and collaboration with members of the Smithsonian staff helped get to the bottom of a field book mystery.

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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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    Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

    • Date: August 25, 2011
    • Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how

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    Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)

    • Date: June 1, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. Putting It All Together: The Assembly and Rehousing of Glass Plate Negatives

    • Date: August 21, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Clean Sweep in the New Year: Organizing Digital Photos

    • Date: January 4, 2011
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Aww: Cute Baby Animals and Other Field Book Surprises

    • Date: May 25, 2017
    • Creator: Mignonette (Mig) Dooley Johnson:
    • Description: Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.

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  21. Graph of the activity of Archives #volunpeers during the first 6 months of the year

    Ecology of the Transcription Center at the Archives

    • Date: September 4, 2014
    • Description: Learning the basis of landscape ecology to understand how the Transcription Center and the Smithsonian Institution Archives community of #volunpeers operates as a system.

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    Going Back to the Smithsonian’s Future

    • Date: February 8, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Today on The Bigger Picture, we are highlighting the anniversary of the 1927 Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian which brought together people from across the country – scientists, academics, politicians, and private citizens – to advise on the future role of the Smithsonian. For this, we bring you a piece from Smithsonian Archives Program Assistant Lisa Fthenakis,

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