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  1. Barro Colorado Island, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama

    Sneak Peek: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

    • Date: March 11, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Series of photographs of Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute buildings and facilities at Barro Colorado, Naos, and Galeta islands, Panama, 1960s, SIA RU000095.

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  3. Marion Stirling Pugh holds an iguana. She is wearing field work clothes.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marion Stirling Pugh

    • Date: May 27, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to

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  5. Sneak Peek 3/25/2019

    • Date: March 25, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: "Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America" seminar with Wilton S. Dillon, Dr. Margaret Mead, and Lucille Dawson, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA Acc. 11-009, 76-7580-17.

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    See Here: 3/25/2011

    • Date: March 25, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Visitors, including children, are viewing entomology exhibits in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, June 1954, by United States Department of Agriculture, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 10, Negative Number:

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  9. Photo of book spine

    Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

    • Date: August 16, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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    And don’t forget your badge this time!

    • Date: January 2, 2018
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Despite my long experience responding to many an incident affecting cultural heritage infrastructure and collections, since 2016, I have gained valuable experience living through the Atlantic hurricane season from the perspectives of both a professional immersed in the disaster lifecycle (preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation), and the individuals, businesses, and

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    See Here: 6/20/2011

    • Date: June 20, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="356" caption="Photo of a termite nest, near Aguadulce, Panama, From 1910 to 1912 the Smithsonian participated in the Biological Survey of the Panama Canal Zone, to document the natural history of the Canal Zone prior to construction of the Panama Canal, 1910-1911, by Henri Pittier, Photographic print, "Completion of the Biological

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  15. Free NASA Posters, image courtesy NASA/JPL.

    Link Love: 02/19/2016

    • Date: February 19, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a

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    See Here: 11/23/2018

    • Date: November 23, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    See Here: 3/2/2011

    • Date: March 2, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="344" caption="Ten men are carrying a cayuco ("dug-out canoe") to the water in María, Coiba Island, Panama, The image was taken by Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore while on a scientific expedition to Coiba to study birds the birds of Panama, January 24, 1956, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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  21. Bear skin on exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915.

    Sneak Peek 9/16/2019

    • Date: September 16, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Bear skin on exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, California, 1915, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 19907A.

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    See Here: 12/1/2017

    • Date: December 1, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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