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  1. Tweets between @Smithsonian and @PennamitePLR

    Audiences Solving Mysteries of Women in Science

    • Date: December 3, 2013
    • Description: Recent discoveries about our Women in Science demonstrate the ways our audiences are helping us add more stories to our collections.

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  3. An advertisement for packaged air featured in Life Magazine, January 24, 1944.

    Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning

    • Date: June 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.

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  5. 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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  7. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

    Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

    • Date: February 26, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  9. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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  11. Route 66 runs through Winslow, Arizona. This corner is a tribute to the Eagles song, “Take It Easy.” The camera used included a date stamp. Photo by Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig.

    Making the Most of Vacation Memories

    • Date: June 24, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Summer means family vacations and making memories. Here are some ideas for before and during the trip.

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  13. Drawing of Spencer Fullerton Baird's Pet Dog

    Smithsonian Open Access-iversary

    • Date: February 25, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at CC0 content we have posted in the year since the Smithsonian Open Access launch!

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  15. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019

    • Date: March 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

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  17. Six people smiles for a photograph near a sign that reads,

    Mission: Records Management Panama

    • Date: April 11, 2019
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Archives describes its approach to records management outreach at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

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  19. Giant panda at National Zoo.

    Panda-Rama

    • Date: July 11, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling arrive at the National Zoo.

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    Panoramic Panic! A Sticky Situation, Part 2

    • Date: August 5, 2010
    • Description: This piece is part two in a series of posts about Smithsonian Institution Archives’ (SIA) paper conservator and interns working on stabilizing a 1921 panoramic photo of air mail pilots and crews that is being moved to the National Air and Space Museum’s (NASM) Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Also see part 1 and a related post on NASM's blog. [caption id="attachment_7587"

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  23. “The Proper Thing to Do": James Smithson’s Journey to Washington

    • Date: June 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On the 190th anniversary of the death of Smithsonian founding donor James Smithson, we’re taking a look back at his posthumous journey, led by Alexander Graham Bell, to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.

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