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  1. Portrait photograph of Evangelestia-Dougherty. Trees are in the background.

    Smithsonian Names Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

    • Date: October 6, 2021
    • Description: On October 5, 2021, the Smithsonian announced that Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty will be the new director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Nov. 6.

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    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  7. Three Cheers for Embedded Metadata

    • Date: February 28, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Metadata is a helpful tool. When you have embedded metadata, all the better when trying to figure out what something might be.

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  9. "The whole Smithsonian was like one big family . . . "

    • Date: March 12, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.

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  11. Adelia Gates—Flower Painter or Botanical Illustrator?

    • Date: March 31, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  13. The Deadwood Coach

    Can You Relate? Connecting SIA Collections with Themes in the Transcription Center

    • Date: July 16, 2013
    • Description: How Transcription Center themes open connections for Smithsonian Archives' collections that create relatedness, unveil stories, and ask new questions.

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  15. Event card - Sudan and Zaire Ebola Fever Epidemic, January 26, 1977

    For Real - Center for Study of Short-lived Phenomena

    • Date: September 25, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Taking a look at some event cards from the Center for Study of Short-lived Phenomena

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  17. Challenges of Appraising Records in the Digital Age

    • Date: October 12, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: With the proliferation of records maintained electronically, appraisal has become more challenging and time-consuming.

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  19. Rube Goldberg and wife Irma interacting with the machine exhibits and attendees riding a bicycle. Photographs being taken of Goldberg sitting near his cartoons speaking to the press. Also, dinner table seating with the Goldbergs, Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and NMHT Director Daniel Boorstin.

    Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg

    • Date: November 24, 2020
    • Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have

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    Exhibiting the Enola Gay

    • Date: June 25, 2020
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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  23. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

    The History of Email at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 21, 2015
    • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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