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    1. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

      There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

      • Date: March 6, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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      Augmented Reality? Something Wrong With That?

      • Date: June 18, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1356" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Tommy Dodgen, age 4, standing by the largest lamp in the world : Tampa, Florida, by unknown photographer, 1947, State Library and Archives of Florida, Commerce Collection."][/caption] The cover shot of Popular Science’s July issue, which focuses on the future of energy, uses some interesting new

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    5. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

      Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

      • Date: August 4, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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      “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered

      • Date: March 27, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Elizabeth Tashjiaan, American painter, 1912-2007, Smithsonian American Art Museum"][/caption]Looking at this photo of artist Elizabeth Tashjian in our new set of portraits of women artists at the Smithsonian Commons on Flickr, it seemed obvious to me that I was looking at a professionally-trained artist, who in fact, won

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    9. Harriman Alaska Expedition

      • Date: April 5, 2012
      • Description: A profile of the Archives' collections related to the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 which explored Alaska's flora, fauna, and geography.

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      Here's Looking at You, Closer . . . Photography and Radiology

      • Date: April 10, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Photo of William F. Mack, Roentgenologist, by Margrethe Mather, 1922, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications"][/caption] Just how closely do radiologists look at what they’re supposed to be analyzing? Would knowing whose CT scans they were studying make

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    13. Two men hold a young girl up in a trash can.The girl is looking directly at the camera.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2022

      • Date: April 28, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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      The Saint Augustine Monster

      • Date: August 18, 2010
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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    17. Where Are Archives Going? Impressions from SAA 2012

      • Date: August 30, 2012
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Impressions from the Society of American Archivists 2012 Annual Meeting on how archives are transforming themselves in the 21st century.

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      Ruel P. Tolman’s Images: Who Are You?

      • Date: January 12, 2012
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    21. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

      Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

      • Date: March 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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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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