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    Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

    • Date: September 19, 2017
    • Creator: Jessica Lavin
    • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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  3. Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, c. 1905, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. MAH-15760

    Hockey Weekend Across America

    • Date: February 27, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: To honor this year's Hockey Weekend Across America, we highlight some hockey related material from the Archives and the Smithsonian.

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    The Field Book Project: Uncovering Hidden Gems at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 21, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Ring Out the Old, Scan in the Nude

    • Date: December 31, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption=""Backscatter" x-ray scan, courtesy of Flickr user publik16, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Following the Christmas Day capture of a passenger, dubbed “The Underwear Bomber,” who attempted to blow up an American airliner, controversy swirls around the use and efficacy of full body scanners and the fate of

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  9. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

    • Date: May 12, 2022
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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  11. Two men in robes and a woman in a hat stand in a group outdoors.

    The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall

    • Date: December 11, 2018
    • Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.

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  13. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

    Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

    • Date: October 21, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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  15. Wishing you a Trivial New Year!

    • Date: January 4, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our

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  17. Werb speaks to a crowd.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Shari Rosenstein Werb

    • Date: July 15, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  19. Scan of a black and white forest fire prevention poster featuring the head of Smokey the Bear

    Bearly Survived to become an Icon

    • Date: May 27, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the

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    Hunting for Elephants in Archives

    • Date: February 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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    See Here: 12/31/2010

    • Date: December 31, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="299" caption="Hanging from the walls of the National Air and Space Museum, the U.S. flag loomed large and proud over the podium at the July 20 celebration of the 20th anniversary of the first lunar landing, President George H.W. Bush and Vice President Dan Quayle joined the three Apollo 22 astronauts- Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins

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