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    For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...

    • Date: July 17, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="This is America...Keep it Free!, Dorothea Lange, 1942, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that’s continuing to spread

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  3. You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall

    • Date: May 23, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.

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  5. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

    • Date: August 20, 2013
    • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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  7. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

    • Date: December 4, 2012
    • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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    Gone But Never Forgotten

    • Date: December 17, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="341" caption="Funeral home, Date unknown, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Scurlock Studio Records, 1905-1994, Call No. 0618.239244."][/caption] The Smithsonian has millions of pictures organized in hundreds of subject based

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    Look Again

    • Date: April 1, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="View of Canyon, 1873, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Black and white photoprint on cardboard mount, National Anthropological Archives, SPC Sw Gen NM 113605 01861700, Local Number: NAA INV 01861700."][/caption] I paid another visit to the Timothy O’Sullivan exhibition now on view at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and a

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  13. Finding Aid

    SIA RU007281, Foshag, William F (William Frederick) 1894-1956, William F. Foshag Papers, 1923-1965 and undated

    • Date: 1923 1923-1965 1923-1965 and undated
    • Creator: Foshag, William F. (William Frederick), 1894-1956
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    The Bigger Picture | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Star-Spangled Banner, by Dane Penland

      Happy Birthday USA!

      • Date: July 4, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: On July 4, 2013 the Smithsonian Institution Archives wants to wish the USA a happy birthday!

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      Life & Death. Still & Moving Pictures.

      • Date: July 23, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Marey Wheel Photographs of Unidentified Model, with Eadweard Muybridge Notations, by Thomas Eakins, 1884, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden."][/caption] Please be aware that some of the photographs included in links within this post may contain graphic and emotionally disturbing material. Which are more powerful,

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      There will always be a photography

      • Date: July 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="303" caption="Photographer holding large folding camera, by unidentified photographer, c. 1935, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] Recently photography has said goodbye to two industry icons. Polaroid stopped production of its instant film, and Kodak announced that it is

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      The Burning of the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 23, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: One hundred fifty years ago, on January 24, 1865, a massive fire erupted in the west wing of the Smithsonian Castle.

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