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    Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

    • Date: November 22, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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  3. Blog Post

    Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

    • Date: November 22, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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  5. A Quest for the First Asian Employee

    • Date: May 10, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A search for the first Asian employee at the Smithsonian leads to Kuang-zung Tung.

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  7. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

    Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

    • Date: August 4, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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  9. A woman stands in snow pants, suspenders, and a puffy jacket.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: January 9, 2020
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  11. Link Love: 11/9/2012

    • Date: November 9, 2012
    • 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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  13. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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  15. A letter from Waldo Schmitt Jr. to his father, 1925.

    Care Package from Home

    • Date: July 11, 2017
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: A look at letters from home that the Smithsonian's Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt received while traveling on expeditions in 1925.

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  17. Takashi and Kumi Sugiura smile at one another as they hold up art and fabric.

    Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura

    • Date: May 5, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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    Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

    • Date: August 3, 2017
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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  21. Color photograph of scientist sitting near seismic equipment.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Cottrell

    • Date: March 8, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Congratulations to Elizabeth Cottrell for receiving the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award to examine, "The Continental Nursery at Buldir Volcano, Western Aleutian Arc, Alaska, USA." Congratulations to Elizabeth Cottrell for receiving the Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award to examine, "The Continental Nursery at Buldir Volcano, Western Aleutian Arc, Alaska, USA."

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  23. Eruption of Nicaragua's Momotombo volcano, March 2016, captured by ASTER, courtesy of NASA.

    Link Love: 4/15/16

    • Date: April 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Thank you, NASA! 3 million new images of earth. [via PetaPixel]The Serpukhov’s Museum of History and Art has hired a resident cat. No joke. [via hyperallergic]A new book from the Smithsonian's own Darrin Lunde about the naturalist side of Teddy Roosevelt. [via Daily Beast]The Robert Gessner film archives related to his book, "Some of my Best Friends Are Jews." [via United

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