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    1. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

      Thank you, Volunteers!

      • Date: April 23, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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    3. 2011 Smithsonian Teachers Night, Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

      New Archives Resources for Teachers

      • Date: November 3, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    5. Portrait of an older woman.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: April 1, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    7. Teachers at Smithsonian Teachers' Night 2011, Courtesy of Smithsonian Education.

      Last Chance to Register for Smithsonian Teachers' Night 2012

      • Date: September 24, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    9. A 2002 press release about an exhibition at the National Museum at Natural History. It was written and saved as a Microsoft Word document.

      Word-processing files need love, too

      • Date: December 31, 2015
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.

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    11. Observations taken from 9 p.m. August 3th to 2 a.m. August 9, 1872 in Holt County, Missouri, of an aurora. Detailed, timed observations on a single sized document in purple ink.

      The Increase and Diffusion of Data

      • Date: October 19, 2021
      • Description: Research has been at the core of Smithsonian’s mission from the beginning, and sharing that research—through activities like publishing papers and data—is still key to fulfilling that mission for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

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      Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Thursday, October 22

      • Date: October 15, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of Archives Month, it’s time for the Smithsonian’s annual Facebook Q&A where the public can ask questions about preserving and organizing their own collections!

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    15. Blog Post

      The Time Has Come

      • Date: February 8, 2011
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_11359" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Freelon Adjaye Bond/SmithGroup Design for the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), Courtesy NMAAHC."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER

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      Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse

      • Date: June 25, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.

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      Introducing: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s Legacy

      • Date: August 10, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.

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    21. A gray line drawing on a white field depicts four views of a box: at top left, a view from above showing the document and a support tube in the lower tray of the box; at bottom left, a cross-section view of the same; at top right, a cross-section view of the box lid, showing a pressure plate occupying the lower two-thirds of the lid; at bottom right, a view from below of the same, looking up into the lid and showing an area removed from the pressure plate to avoid damaging the wax seal.

      Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!

      • Date: July 28, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.

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      Tragedy, Towers, and Romance at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 14, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6823,size=150,left] On this Valentine’s Day, you might wonder if Cupid has ever shot any arrows around the Institution. The Smithsonian has been the site of many romances and even some tragedies, so today I’ll tell a story which combines both. In the process of recording his oral history interviews, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, a physical anthropologist at the

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