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  1. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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    Microsoft Word - FINAL_Joseph_Henry_Quotations.doc

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      SIA RU000045, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Records, 1890-1929

      • Date: 1890 1890-1929
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 84-145, Smithsonian Institution Office of Plant Services Division of Transportation and Communications Services, Records, 1975-1981

      • Date: 1975 1975-1981
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Plant Services. Division of Transportation and Communications Services
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 03-116, Lemelson Center, Grant Records, 1994-2001

      • Date: 1994 1994-2001
      • Creator: Lemelson Center
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 15-199, Smithsonian Institution Office of Imaging, Printing, and Photographic Services, Exhibition Posters, 1978-2001, 2005

      • Date: 1978 1978-2001 1978-2001, 2005
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Photographic Services
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA RU000333, National Museum of American Art/National Portrait Gallery Library, Exhibition Records, circa 1910-1986

      • Date: 1910 1910-1986 circa 1910-1986
      • Creator: National Collection of Fine Arts/National Portrait Gallery Library
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

      • Date: August 18, 2020
      • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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      John Kinard

      • Date: August 23, 2016
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14623,size=300,left]Born in 1936 in Washington DC, John Robert Edward Kinard would become the first African American director of a Smithsonian museum at the age of 31. Kinard’s circuitous path into museum work took him from development work in Africa to community organizing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a dilapidated theater on Nichols Street in DC’s

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      National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 18, 2013
      • Description: The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) was created on November 18, 1989, when President George H.W. Bush signed an act allowing the transfer of the Museum of the American Indian into the Smithsonian to create NMAI. As one of the Smithsonian’s newer museums, the images in this gallery show the evolution of postcard use at the Smithsonian. The NMAI postcards mainly

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      SIA RU000324, Cooper-Hewitt Museum Office of Public Programs, Program Records, 1976-1982

      • Date: 1976 1976-1982
      • Creator: Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Public Programs
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 18-058, Lecar, Myron, Myron Lecar Papers, 1956-2010

      • Date: 1956 1956-2010
      • Creator: Lecar, Myron
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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