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    1. The World Is Yours: Stars in the Sky

      • Date: July 15, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from a The World Is Yours episode, “Stars in the Sky.”

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    3. Blue-tinted cyanotype of a statue in the middle of a lake. A large, beautiful building is in the background.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: October 13, 2020
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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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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      Link Love: 10/12/2018

      • Date: October 12, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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      Photography Murdered Painting, Right?

      • Date: February 2, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Untitled, 1890, by Thomas Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95), Image ID: RU95_Box77_0021."][/caption] It’s inevitable. Whenever someone tries to recount or evoke photography’s impact on visual culture when Daguerreotypes were introduced in 1839, a statement

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      How Hot Was It At Bull Run?

      • Date: July 20, 2011
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)

      • Date: June 1, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Documenting a Geologist's Adventures

      • Date: December 11, 2012
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.

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    17. Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying

      • Date: August 2, 2012
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.

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