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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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    3. Serpents, Slugs and Science: The Interesting Career of Paul Bartsch

      • Date: August 9, 2012
      • Description: Learn about Smithsonian zoologist Paul Bartsch, whose love of mollusks and science was not just a career but a way of life.

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        WWII: Collecting and Interpreting the War

        • Date: June 27, 2016
        • Description: Not only did the Smithsonian research in Washington, D.C., inform the course of World War II, the war also shaped the collections and research of the Smithsonian. Military medical staff sent thousands of specimens of disease carrying insects to the museum for identification. Soldiers stationed in far-flung locations provided the Smithsonian with collecting opportunities that

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      • Statue by George Segal of a citizen listening to one of President Roosevelt's fireside chats.

        The Painter and the Poet: Creative Writing at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

        • Date: April 4, 2017
        • Creator: Hillary Brady
        • Description: Pieces by aspiring poets—and a look at the artwork that inspired them—from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s writing workshops.

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        Louise Daniel Hutchinson

        • Date: August 25, 2016
        • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8804,size=350,right]Louise Daniel Hutchinson set out on the path of her life’s work from a young age, growing up among DC’s African American intellectual elite in a family that imbued her with a passion for justice and a love of community. Those connections and commitments accompanied her throughout a long and influential career at the Smithsonian.

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        Correspondence, 2011, 2017-2019

        • Date: 2017 2017-2019 2011, 2017-2019
        • Creator: National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Aeronautics Department

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      • "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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      • Finding Aid

        SIA Acc. 86-052, Smithsonian Institution Office of Museum Programs, Audiovisual Recordings, 1972-1982

        • Date: 1972 1972-1982
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Museum Programs
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        SIA RU009551, Soviet Space Medicine Videohistory Collection, 1989

        • Date: 1989
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        SIA RU009553, Conservation of Endangered Species Videohistory Collection, 1990

        • Date: 1990
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        SIA RU009617, Riccardo Giacconi Videohistory Collection, 2004

        • Date: 2004
        • Creator: Giacconi, Riccardo, interviewee
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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