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  1. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

    Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

    • Date: June 9, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 4/13/2010

    • Date: April 13, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="415" caption="National Geogrqaphical Society photographer Richard Stewart is photographing an archological site being excavated by Matthew and Marion Stirling of the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, south of Parita, Herrera, Panama, March 2, 1948, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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    See Here: 5/11/2010

    • Date: May 11, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Photograph of the Samuel P. Langley commemorative statue at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906, and pioneer in astrophysics and aerial navigation, c. 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,

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    See Here: 9/9/2010

    • Date: September 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in Saint Louis, Missouri, a view of the Natural History Fossil Exhibit with the model of a whale and skeletons of several dinosaurs, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the United States Government exhibits and prepared a display on its activities and collections for the exposition,

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    See Here: 4/7/2011

    • Date: April 7, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, is on horseback along side a man on horseback, c. 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Portrait photograph of Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929), entomologist at the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian from 1897 until his death in 1929, c. 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Negative Number: SIA2009-0002."][/caption] It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in

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    See Here: 7/1/2010

    • Date: July 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="The Alexander Calder sculpture outside the western facade of the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, looking towards the Mall with the United States Department of Agriculture Building in the background, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,

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    See Here: 12/20/2010

    • Date: December 20, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance work at makeshift desks packed into areas not meant for offices, such as one of the display spaces of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History Building, 1918, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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    See Here: 3/15/2011

    • Date: March 15, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="In the hallways of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, every available foot of space is occupied by valuable collections housed carefully in metal covered cabinets to guard them from injury, 1936, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    See Here: 3/29/2011

    • Date: March 29, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="After the Exhibits Modernization Program, an exhibit case in the Bird Hall at the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, features birds sitting on a tree branch in their natural surroundings, 1956, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    See Here: 7/26/2010

    • Date: July 26, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="The History of Medicine Exhibit on the use of vegetable substances in pharmacy, in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, It appears on the floor plan of the 1925 Guidebook and remains there through 1965, c. 1930s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    See Here: 1/28/2011

    • Date: January 28, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="On Coiba Island, Panama, a convict of the penal colony there, carries on his shoulder 5 drinking coconuts or "pipas" to take to Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore and colleagues who were on the island, February 2, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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