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  1. A handwritten map. On a square box are tiny, labeled circles. The paper is dated 1992.

    Love a Tree (Every)Day

    • Date: May 16, 2019
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: On Love a Tree Day, the Archives discusses the Smithsonian's dedication to trees throughout the world.

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    Smithsonian Digitization Update

    • Date: April 14, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Even if you have visited the Smithsonian in person, you probably don’t know that it’s comprised of 19 museums and 9 research centers. You can’t see it all by visiting the Mall in Washington D.C. since there are museums in New York and research centers in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Panama. Each museum and research center researches and collects around different topics, from

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    Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

    • Date: July 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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  7. Link Love: 9/4/2020

    • Date: September 4, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Season's Greetings from the Archives

    • Date: December 22, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Celebrating the holidays with an assortment of greeting cards from U.S. National Museum ichthyologist Isaac Ginsburg’s papers.

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  11. A man sits at a desk on which large bones sit. An animal skeleton is hanging on the wall.

    The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 6, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

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  13. Berlandier Fish (Pimelodus maculatus), Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Box 12, Folder 14, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

    • Date: June 5, 2014
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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  15. Color photo of Dr. Donald F. Squires, sitting in the Oyster Cove Restaurant.

    Dr. Donald Fleming Squires (1927-2017)

    • Date: February 13, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14492,size=500,center]Dr. Squires was a pioneer in the application of computer technology in science museums and the founding father of data processing at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He died on his 90th birthday, December 19, 2017 in Tasmania, Australia, after a short illness. Squires received an B.A. from Cornell

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  17. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

    • Date: December 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

    • Date: October 21, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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  21. “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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  23. A man and woman in beige shirts and pants stand in front of four elephants. Four men are riding the elephants. The man in beige is wearing a hat and binoculars around his neck.

    A Crafty Way to Support the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 14, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Tracing the history of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, created in 1966 to raise funds to support the Institution, especially its educational programs.

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