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    1. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

      Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

      • Date: March 5, 2020
      • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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      “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

      • Date: August 21, 2018
      • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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    5. Black and white half-plate daguerreotype of a woman seen from the chest up, image is in a black frame

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

      • Date: May 22, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch

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    7. Perros Dingo (Dingo Dogs), 1960s. Illustrations from the Barcelona Zoo Guide Book.

      International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part I

      • Date: June 13, 2017
      • Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.

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    9. Six festival participants on wooden stage holding ukuleles with visitors looking on.

      Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

      • Date: May 18, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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    11. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

      Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

      • Date: December 26, 2011
      • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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      The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"

      • Date: July 14, 2011
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,

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      Louis R. Purnell

      • Date: August 23, 2016
      • Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and

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    17. Dick Benson, March 1975, by Kjell Sandved

      Sandved and his Snapshots

      • Date: April 4, 2013
      • Description: Kjell Bloch Sandved worked as a photographer for the National Musuem of Natural History for 32 years and his Photographic Files captured the Museum’s staff at work in 1975.

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      SIA Acc. 16-069, National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) Office of the Director, Administrative Records, 1984-2014

      • Date: 1984 1984-2014
      • Creator: National Museum of African American History and Culture. Office of the Director
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 17-252, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.) Film and Video Center, Program Records, 1977-2016

      • Date: 1977 1977-2016
      • Creator: National Museum of the American Indian. Film and Video Center
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 17-094, National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) Office of the Director, Administrative Records, 1994-1995, 2000-2015

      • Date: 1994 1994-1995 1994-1995, 2000-2015
      • Creator: National Museum of African American History and Culture. Office of the Director
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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