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  1. The “Et” origins are visible. Black background. White glyph.

    & is for Ampersand

    • Date: September 8, 2020
    • Description: Today we honor the glyph with an incredibly long name that used to shorten an incredibly short word.

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    The Billionaire Club . . .

    • Date: December 22, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3314" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Looking, May 2009, by Karthick Ramalingam, Digital photograph, Pentax K200D, www.makkaphotography.com, © Karthick Ramalingam."][/caption] What photography is, how it works, and the ways it has become indispensable in our lives are difficult to pin down. The medium itself keeps changing and trying to figure

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    Can Buildings Stack Up to the Images Made of Them?

    • Date: November 18, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3043" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photograph of the Ames Monument, Wyoming, courtesy Phil Patton."][/caption] Looking at an illustrated real estate listing or brochure, have you ever been mesmerized by a wide angle and luxurious photograph of what you suspect is, in fact, a tiny studio apartment? Have you ever had the experience where all

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  7. The damaged nudibranch field book

    Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology

    • Date: November 15, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!

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    Lost and Found

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7871" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="A rendering of the AT&T Building, now the SONY Building, in New York, recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum from a newly discovered cache of material from the Philip Johnson’s architectural practice. Photo courtesy Capelin Communications.

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  11. Stamp depicting S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Fosberg

    • Date: November 17, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into Raymond Fosberg’s research on the flora of Sri Lanka.

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    Online Soul

    • Date: June 7, 2010
    • Description: One of the goals of THE BIGGER PICTURE blog is to highlight stories about the ways images delivered in an online environment can describe extraordinary events or comment equally powerfully on our everyday life. Our contributors talk about collections at the Smithsonian, about images or archives that are making headlines, or about people that make, care for, and think about

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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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  17. Barro Colorado Island, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    Sneak Peek: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

    • Date: March 11, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Series of photographs of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute buildings and facilities at Barro Colorado, Naos, and Galeta islands, Panama, 1960s, SIA RU000095.

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  19. Portrait of Carl William Schuermann, Jr.

    Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk

    • Date: October 28, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.

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  21. Telephone Operators, C.1914-1917, by Harris & Ewing, glass negative, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-04117.

    April Fool’s, Mr. Lyon!

    • Date: March 31, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The National Zoo gets flooded with phone calls in a 1919 April Fool’s prank.

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  23. Former Secretary Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot blows out candles on a birthday cake at a Regents Dinner held in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, celebrating his 100th birthday, May 10, 1972. Photo by Victor Krantz, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 72-5080-02.

    Birthdays at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 17, 2014
    • Description: Ranking 2nd in 2013 as one of the top best places to work for in the Federal Government, there is no doubt that the Smithsonian Institution knows how to throw a birthday party.

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