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  1. Color scan of a 19th snetury filed notebook opened, showing handwritten notes and a black insect specimen laying on top of the pages.j

    A Taste For Adventure

    • Date: May 3, 2018
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, Tony Cohn, host of Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, contacted the Archives about an upcoming episode they were preparing. Sidedoor highlights the unseen or little-known stories about collections at the Smithsonian. The Archives’ work was recently front-and-center of an episode of The Sidedoor Podcast about America’s first food spy.

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  3. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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  5. Ironworkers at 1976 Festival of American Folklife.

    Summertime on the Mall - Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    • Date: June 13, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Come out to the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrating Hungarian culture, endangered languages, and African American style.

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  7. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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  9. Link Love: 3/15/2013

    • Date: March 15, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  11. Shooting a passenger pigeon flock; July 3, 1875; published in

    Martha, A Cold and Lonely Last Migration

    • Date: June 26, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her species, who was donated to the National Museum of Natural History 100 years ago.

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  13. Untitled, by James Fraser Paige, Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1991-088.

    Link Love: 10/7/2011

    • Date: October 7, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. John Adams

    A Founding Father's Day

    • Date: June 16, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A closer look at Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and the father-son duo's relationship to the Smithsonian.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words

    • Date: July 10, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had

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  19. Portrait of woman, standing in front of a backdrop, wearing a long dress with large sleeves.

    The Woman Behind the Camera

    • Date: March 28, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A closer look at Smithsonian's first woman photographer, Louisa Bernie Gallaher.

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    New Flickr Commons Set: Mary Agnes Chase Field Books

    • Date: March 22, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A new set of Flickr Commons images from the field books of Mary Agnes Chase—a grass specialist, botanist, and suffragist.

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  23. 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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