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  1. Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, c. 1905, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. MAH-15760

    Hockey Weekend Across America

    • Date: February 27, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: To honor this year's Hockey Weekend Across America, we highlight some hockey related material from the Archives and the Smithsonian.

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    Civil War Reconnaissance Takes Flight

    • Date: June 18, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  5. The Statue of Freedom on display at the Arts and Industries Building. Other objects, like cannons and a spinning

    Archives Puzzles: Statue of Freedom

    • Date: November 2, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  7. Link Love 3/6

    • Date: March 6, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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  9. Drawing of Cyproinoid with green, blue, orange, and yellow watercolors. Small labels are written in the corners of the paper.

    Archives Puzzles: Nineteenth-Century Watercolors

    • Date: July 12, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  11. Board of Regents minutes - First Annual Meeting, by Lisa Fthenakis, 2014, Record Unit 1 - Smithsonian Institution Board of Regents, Minutes, 1846- , Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Telegraphs, Controversy, and the Board of Regents

    • Date: December 11, 2014
    • Description: Board of Regents minutes might not sound exciting, but they have plenty of drama: including mudslinging over the telegraph’s invention.

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  13.  View of a corner of an exhibit that features a bell and a wagon.

    Archives Puzzles: A Centennial Celebration

    • Date: July 5, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  15. Exhibit cases In a large hall. A hanging sign reads: “History of the United States.” Visible in the cases are busts, vases, models of sailboats.

    Archives Puzzles: HBD, AIB

    • Date: April 12, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.In honor of the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Arts and Industries Building, then known as the

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    150 Years Ago: Abraham Lincoln’s Assassination

    • Date: April 14, 2015
    • Description: In New York City when he heard of Lincoln’s assassination, Secretary Joseph Henry returned to Washington for the president’s funeral.

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  19. An American bison pictured in a field with tall, thin trees in the background.

    Archives Puzzles: Bringing Up Bison

    • Date: April 19, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    What’s Bugging Us

    • Date: May 27, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Brood X cicadas are here, which inspired us to see what buggy treats we have in the archives.

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  23. An L-shaped stacked stone and mortar house with a slate roof and white-painted sash windows sits amidst a grassy expanse. A lichen-covered stacked stone wall separates the front garden from pastureland.

    Walking in the Footsteps of Hungerfords

    • Date: September 15, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract dividing a lucrative land inheritance between the mother and aunt of the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson. Over the last three years I have been able to take a deep dive into the content of the Deed and strengthen our understanding of Smithson’s choice to leave his

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