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      Remembering Robert McCormick Adams, Secretary 1984-1994

      • Date: January 29, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10199,size=500,center]Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1984 to 1994. He succeeded S. Dillon Ripley who had overseen a period of remarkable expansion from 1964 to 1984. Dr. Dr. Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1984 to 1994. An

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    3. Promotional black and white photograph of The Beatles, c. 1964, as seen in even, non-raking visible light. Courtesy of E. Keats Webb, Museum Conservation Institute. Accession 2014.02 - Harry Lynn Collection, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

      But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?

      • Date: April 29, 2014
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.

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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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    7. Television and the Smithsonian: The Allure of Objects

      • Date: October 15, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Television often uses museum artifacts to impart reality within illusion, but the real objects retain their power and relevancy.

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    9. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    11. Talking and Doing About Emergency Preparation

      • Date: May 1, 2012
      • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
      • Description: Every May 1 is a chance to do one thing about Emergency Preparation; here’s how the Smithsonian Institution Archives is doing it.

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    13. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

      The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    15. View of the courtyard at the center of the Freer Gallery. A working fountain is in view.

      The World Is Yours: Freer Gallery of Art

      • Date: April 15, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours about the Freer Gallery of Art.

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      A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

      • Date: March 13, 2014
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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    19. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

      Link Love: 8/25/2017

      • Date: August 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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      T. Mead’s Splendid Assortment

      • Date: December 14, 2010
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_10508" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="T. Mead advertising circular (click to enlarge), Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 305: Accession Number 4414."][/caption] [caption id="attachment_10509" align="alignright" width="226" caption="T.

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    23. Smithsonian Institution Archives’ “She blinded me with science” Wikipedia Edit-a

      Link Love: 4/6/2012

      • Date: April 6, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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