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  1. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

    Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

    • Date: August 10, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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  3. Embracing the Crowd

    • Date: April 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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    See Here: 1/26/2011

    • Date: January 26, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore

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    The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

    • Date: October 3, 2017
    • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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    True Grit

    • Date: March 17, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Taimi Toffer Anderson (1937- ), 1956, by Science Service, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA2010-0105)."][/caption] The wealth of interesting stories in the Science Service collection never ceases to surprise

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    Bringing out the Animal in Art

    • Date: December 22, 2015
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: On National Visit the Zoo Day, a look at a unique exhibition at the National Zoological Park, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Animal In Art,” an exhibit and series of “sketch-ins,” part of an international campaign for the World Wildlife Fund.

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  13. Drawing of Spencer Fullerton Baird's Pet Dog

    Smithsonian Open Access-iversary

    • Date: February 25, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at CC0 content we have posted in the year since the Smithsonian Open Access launch!

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  15. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

    Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

    • Date: October 21, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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    See Here: 2/15/2011

    • Date: February 15, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="From left to right: Baldomiro Moreno, Herbert Clark, John Hushing, C. L. Pierce, Karl Curtis and Watson M. Perrygo stand in front of a building belonging to the La Jagua Hunting Club near Chico, Panama, 1949, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 2: Watson M.

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    Save Our African American Treasures

    • Date: March 29, 2011
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian'€™s National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption

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    Link Love: 5/13/2011

    • Date: May 13, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Six children play on the sculpture "Uncle Beazley," the 25 foot long replica of a triceratops, placed on the Mall in front of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 23, Negative Number:

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  23. Scared to Death?: The Curious Case of a Pine Mouse

    • Date: August 14, 2012
    • Description: “Can a Rattlesnake hypnotize a Pine Mouse to death”? Questions from a typical day of treatment for a Pre-Program Paper Conservation Intern.

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