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      The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers

      • Date: April 25, 2019
      • Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.

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      “A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the 1960s

      • Date: November 12, 2019
      • Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935

      • Date: July 24, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.

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    7. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

      • Date: February 18, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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    9. A woman interviewing a man at a table with a recorder in between them.

      Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 6, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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      William Stimpson and the Smithsonian’s First Aquarium

      • Date: July 14, 2015
      • Description: William Stimpson and the first aquarium at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    13. The Ritters aboard the Velero, c. 1934 Waldo Schmitt Papers, RU 7312 box 89.

      The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 3

      • Date: August 9, 2011
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Two floppy disks labeled with the ZooArk info. One is from the rhino files and the other is from the tiger files.

      Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating

      • Date: January 14, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.

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    17. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

      Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

      • Date: March 1, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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      The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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      We Don't Know about You, But We’re Feeling (20)22

      • Date: December 30, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.

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    23. The World Is Yours: Glass

      • Date: September 29, 2020
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled Glass.

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