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  1. Interior view of two visitors looking at a skeleton with prosthetics behind glass.

    Happy National Inventors Day!

    • Date: February 11, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: We wish you a Happy National Inventors Day and invite you to check out the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History!

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  3. Perrygo Packing Mammal Skins

    Perrygo Packing Mammal Skins

    • Date: March 10, 1948
    • Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-
    • Creator: Wetmore, Alexander 1886-

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  5. Color picture of a small, white seal pup on concrete.

    Link Love: 1/26/2017

    • Date: January 27, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Meet the newest (and adorable) member of our National Zoo's family. She sparked an epic cute battle on Twitter! [via WTOP]Maybe not so adorable, a prehistoric "badger otter." [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Museum of American History's political curators were busy last weekend collecting artifacts from the Inauguration and Women's March. [via Voice of America]Speaking

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  7. SI History Chronology

    Artist Murdered at the National Museum

    • Date: January 16, 1907

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    James Thomas Gant

    • Date: August 25, 2016
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8206,size=350,right]Born around 1815, James Thomas Gant was one of twelve children born to free parents on a plantation a few miles northeast of the Washington DC-line.1 As a free black man who lived through nearly the entire nineteenth century, he would see the Civil War, the destruction of slavery, the rise and fall of an all-too-brief period of

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  11. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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  13. The Castle Stereos: Interior Views of the Smithsonian Institution

    The Castle Stereos: Interior Views of the Smithsonian Institution

    • Date: 2010
    • Creator: Stamm, Richard E,Fleming, Paula
    • Creator: Stamm, Richard E,Fleming, Paula

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  15. Portrait of Henry Joseph Horan, seated.

    Spotlight: Henry Joseph Horan, Superintendent of Buildings

    • Date: July 29, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A closer look at staff member Henry Horan (1838-1896), who held several positions at the Smithsonian, including janitor, watchman, and superintendent of buildings, during his long career at the Institution.

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  17. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 00-069, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Exhibition Records, circa 1977-1999

    • Date: 1977 1977-1999 circa 1977-1999
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  19. Blog Post

    Ditched Once, Loved Still

    • Date: January 5, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.

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  21. Field Book

    Raven, Henry Cushier, Celebes photographs, 1915-1916

    • Date: 1912-1915 1912 1915
    • Creator: Raven, Henry Cushier, 1889-1944

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    Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

    • Date: August 3, 2017
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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