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    Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

    • Date: February 27, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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  3. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

    Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

    • Date: March 10, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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    See Here: 10/5/2010

    • Date: October 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Waldo LaSalle Schmitt at the Cosmos Hotel, Punta Arenas, Chile, Schmitt, curator of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum, conducted extensive field work in South America, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7231 Box 83 Folder

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    See Here: 1/7/2010

    • Date: January 7, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Guion S. Bluford poses with his spacesuit in the National Air and Space Museum for a Smithsonian public service announcement, May 21, 1984, by Kim Nielsen, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder July 1984, Negative number:

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    See Here: 2/18/2011

    • Date: February 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Gerald Ford, former astronaut and NASM Director Michael Collins, and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with satellite ribbon-cutting apparatus on July 1, 1976, are ready for the opening day ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,

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    See Here: 8/2/2010

    • Date: August 2, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="From 1897-1903, galleries were built on the second floor of the United States National Museum (USNM), now the Arts and Industries Building (A&I), to provide more exhibit space, Pictured are men beside bricks to be used in the construction of the galleries, c. 1897-1903, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,

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    See Here: 2/12/2010

    • Date: February 12, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="397" caption="Apollo 11 astronauts (from left) Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldren reunited at the National Air and Space Museum for a filming session to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the July 1969 landing, 1989, by Richard Strauss, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder July

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    See Here: 3/23/2011

    • Date: March 23, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="373" caption=" Watson M. Perrygo working with drying bird skins in Soná, Veraguas, Panama, Perrygo, a taxidermist for the United States National Museum, was in Panama on an ornithological field trip with Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore, May 31, 1953, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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    See Here: 3/31/2010

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="African American Laborers including Robert Campbell, Richard Hill, Rev. Bartlett L. Phillips, and Charles Washington are dressed in their white uniforms and worked at the United States National Museum, c. 1890, by T. W. Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 34, Negative

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    See Here: 5/20/2010

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Women employees in the Telephone and Telegraph Office which was located in the North Tower of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, from the time the building was opened in 1881, Through the window is the Syrian Sarcophagus brought to the United States in 1837 and intended for Andrew

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    See Here: 7/18/2011

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    See Here: 8/5/2010

    • Date: August 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Apollo 11 Command Module just fitting through the doors of the Arts and Industries Building as it is being moved out to go to the soon to open National Air and Space Museum, August 26, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:

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