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    Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

    • Date: January 24, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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  3. A daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams, taken in March 1843.

    Link Love: 8/18/2017

    • Date: August 18, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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  7. From Plantations to Islands of Science: Travels in Costa Rica and Panama - Part II

    • Date: January 31, 2013
    • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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  9. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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  11. Archibald Wenley in China.

    “A Very Fine and Unusual Statue”: Fruits of the Freer Gallery Field Expeditions in China

    • Date: May 5, 2016
    • Description: Carl Whiting Bishop’s expedition to China for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Cosmic Buddha.

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    See Here: 1/13/2011

    • Date: January 13, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Abram Lerner (Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden), Columbian artist Fernando Botero, and Frances and Sydney Lewis (philanthropist, a retail company executive and trustee at Hirshhorn) are pictured, December 1979, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit

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    See Here: 2/8/2011

    • Date: February 8, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="At the Kenneth Snelson opening, Abram Lerner, left, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, stands talking to Joseph H. Hirshhorn next to an abstract sculpture by Snelson, June 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9600, Abram Lerner Oral

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  17. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

    Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

    • Date: October 28, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    See Here: 3/22/2011

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Image of an expedition member working on the skeleton fossil Sp. 22-27, Titanotherium, Scientific field research headed by Charles W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the U.S. National Museum (USNM), now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was conducted in 1931 and 1932, by Unidentified

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  21. "Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections

    • Date: October 10, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.

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    Link Love: 2/5/2010

    • Date: February 5, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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