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    1. Physicists Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein, co-chairmen of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, photographed by Watson Davis at a meeting of the committee in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1926. By Watson Davis. Accession 90-105: Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-5431.

      Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926

      • Date: October 1, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

      • Date: June 12, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

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      Unity for International Migratory Bird Day

      • Date: May 10, 2018
      • Creator: Matt Peterson
      • Description: The theme of this year’s International Migratory Bird Day is unity. The Smithsonian has a longstanding history of commitment to the natural world. No figure in the Institution’s history better exemplifies the theme of unity surrounding migratory species than sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. He knew the importance of the role that birds play in

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      Live Webcast Today, 10:30 am, "Linked Open Data in Libraries, Museums, & Archives"

      • Date: September 16, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    9. Link Love: 8/14/2020

      • Date: August 14, 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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      An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

      • Date: August 30, 2018
      • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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    13. Rosenthal stands outdoors with her arms crossed.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Aviva Rosenthal

      • Date: December 2, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    15. Hupa basket, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer.

      Accession Records: Not Just Interdepartmental Paper Piles

      • Date: August 11, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    17. Girl smiling with bow in hair sitting next to Helen Keller who has her arm around her and is smiling

      Link Love: 6/22/2018

      • Date: June 22, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The American Foundation for the Blind launched the Helen Keller Archive, the world's first fully accessible digital archive comprised of more than 160,000 artifacts. [via PR Newswire]Ahead of his major retrospective at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, artist Trevor Paglen shares his views on the social and political implication of surveillance systems and artificial

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    19. Portrait photograph of Austin.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jacqueline Frost Austin

      • Date: March 24, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      Beating Hearts

      • Date: August 11, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Artists are often among the researchers who comb through archives in search of inspiration and content. A few years back in 2008, an encyclopedic exhibition, Archive Fever, presented at the International Center of Photography in New York, presented works by leading contemporary artists who have made active use of archival images, documents, and methodology to explore the ways

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    23. People standing around quilt panel with a design of the Smithsonian Castle on the upper half and small quilt panels and people’s names on the lower half.

      The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall

      • Date: December 17, 2020
      • Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.

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