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    1. Three circular graphite drawings, one typewritten note, and one annotated handwritten note. First drawing is of a torch with text: James Smithson 1765-1965 circling it. Second drawing is of James Smithson with text: James Smithson Bicentennial 1765-1965 circling it. Third drawing is of the sunburst with text: James Smithson 1765-1965 circling it. Typewritten note: suggested designs to be incorporated into all printed matter connected with the bi-centennial. Designer says medal design too complicated

      Goodbye, 2020: Working Through a Different Kind of Year

      • Date: December 31, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Despite so many setbacks this year, Archives staff has continued to serve our researchers.

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      Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

      • Date: November 28, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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      The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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      Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 14, 2018
      • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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    9. Benjamin the Anti-Christ's Doomsday Prophecy

      • Date: December 21, 2012
      • Description: In 1866, Benjamin the Anti Christ predicted earthquakes, war, and brain paralysis for the world—a prophecy that reached the SI Archives.

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    11. Museum specialist LaNelle Peterson with chameleon specimens at Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) Navy Yard laboratory.

      Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)

      • Date: February 10, 2022
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Learn more about the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center and the impact this unit had in the study of marine science worldwide.

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    13. The Last of Mr. Lincoln

      • Date: October 4, 2012
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: A file in the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ accession records tells the story of an historic piece of Lincoln memorabilia that didn't wind up in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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    15. Katie Ahlfeld with Horton Hobbs Jr.’s specimens

      Fatherhood in the field: Horton Hobbs aka “Crawdaddy”

      • Date: June 19, 2016
      • Description: Horton H. Hobbs Jr. and his work in the field with his son, Horton H. Hobbs III.

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    17. Portrait of Helena M. Weiss

      Women Managing the Smithsonian

      • Date: March 17, 2020
      • Description: Meet some of the women who have managed aspects of the Smithsonian since the 1850s.

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      The Archives’ Hidden Women

      • Date: March 15, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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    21. Facing Adverse Conditions While Collecting in the Field

      • Date: July 31, 2012
      • Description: David Crockett Graham's field books depict how he faced many adverse conditions while collecting specimens in China.

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    23. 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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