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  1. Blog Post

    Family Vacation

    • Date: March 24, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.

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  3. Students who volunteered as subjects in the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test,” August 14-16, 1925. Left to right: Louise Omwake, Katherine Tait Omwake, Thelma Hunt, and Alice Haines.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 1 - Insomniacs

    • Date: August 18, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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  5. John Adams

    A Founding Father's Day

    • Date: June 16, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A closer look at Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and the father-son duo's relationship to the Smithsonian.

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  7. Eskimo Baskets 1899, 1899, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RU007243 [SIA2012-3822].

    Eskimo Baskets 1899

    • Date: 1899
    • Creator: Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952

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  9. Aleutian Baskets 1899, 1899, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RU007243 [SIA2012-3821].

    Aleutian Baskets 1899

    • Date: 1899
    • Creator: Curtis, Edward S. 1868-1952

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  11. Blog Post

    Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

    • Date: March 8, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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  13. SI History Bibliography

    Around the Mall and Beyond: Big and bearded, Spencer Baird was totally dedicated to his science--and to making it public knowledge

    • Date: November, 1993
    • Creator: Park, Edwards
    • Creator: Park, Edwards

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  15. Blog Post

    Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

    • Date: March 24, 2016
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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  17. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 12-187, American Ornithologists' Union, Records, 1950-2000

    • Date: 1950 1950-2000
    • Creator: American Ornithologists' Union
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  19. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 00-001, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records, c. 1979-1990, and undated

    • Date: 1979 1979-1990 c 1979-1990, and undated
    • Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  21. Blog Post

    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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  23. Finding Aid

    SIA RU000300, Interdisciplinary Communications Program, Records, 1968-1976

    • Date: 1968 1968-1976
    • Creator: Interdisciplinary Communications Program
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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