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    The National Park that Never Was

    • Date: August 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This month marks the centennial of the National Park Service—learn about one that was planned but never built.

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    In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

    • Date: December 17, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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    "To Have and to Hold”: Parsing the Legal Framework of the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: May 12, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Now that we know more about the Hungerford Deed, dive in with us as we seek to understand its legal framework and context.

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    Link Love: 7/1/2011

    • Date: July 1, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Note: I'll be on vacation for the next two weeks, so look for Link Love to start again on July 22nd! We’ve been blogging about the Civil War and the Smithsonian for the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, and others across the Smithsonian have been doing the same. Over at NPR’s Picture show blog, photography curator Shannon Perich shares some incredible animated Civil War-era

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    Archives Puzzles: 100 Years of the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 23, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  11. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart

    • Date: January 3, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.

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  13. A Huge Thank You (and update on DC Photo IDs)

    • Date: October 6, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: You may remember that just over a month ago, we asked for your help ID’ing the locations of early 1900s DC spots from our new Martin A. Gruber set on the Flickr Commons. Well, you all sure did deliver!

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  15. B&W photo of interior with fireplace, a portrait of a woman on an easel, and highly ornate wood furniture.

    Studios and Cottages of a D.C. Socialite

    • Date: December 5, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On December 5, 1961, the Smithsonian announced the gift of the Barney House Studio. We have written previously about Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931); artist, actor, playwright, and Washington D.C. socialite at The Bigger Picture. Barney donated her artwork and her D.C. residence which became part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. In 1999, however, the house

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  17. American Library Association's Promotional Poster with David Bowie

    Link Love: 4/8/2016

    • Date: April 8, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Reading never looked so cool with the American Library Association. [via Open Culture]Libraries join the fight against homelessness. [via InfoDocket]NYPL and The Moth join forces to make their audio more accessible with Together We Listen. [via NYPL labs]Teen art museum programs have a lasting impact. [via Smithsonian.com]A peek into Vincent VanGogh's personal life from his

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    Link Love: 4/25/2016

    • Date: March 25, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A secret trash archive in New York City's Sanitation Department? [via Atlas Obscura]MoMA released 65,000 works of early 20th century modernists online. [via Open Culture]NOT for lunchtime browsing; the Mütter museum's new website gives you a close look at diseased bodies and "terrifying surgical instruments." [via Mental Floss]The Library of Congress is focusing on preserving

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    See Here: 5/3/2010

    • Date: May 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="359" caption="Photographic Collage depicting the standard exhibit cases with specimens and artifacts used by the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1880s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 55, Folder 7, Negative Number:

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    See Here: 9/21/2010

    • Date: September 21, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Exhibit of wood technology presented by Rayonier Incorporated in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), c 1930s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 43, Folder 38, Negative Number: 36649."][/caption]

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