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    Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

    • Date: May 19, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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    Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist

    • Date: February 27, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.

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    Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

    • Date: November 27, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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  7. Photograph album page, black paper with five black and white photographs of plants and a spider specimen.

    Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

    • Date: October 11, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

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  9. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

    Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online

    • Date: September 8, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.

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  11. Faded color map of the United States as it was in 1839.

    Pursuing Knowledge in Unfamiliar Country

    • Date: November 15, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: In mid-19th century America, some believed that world-class discoveries came exclusively from Europe. But early Smithsonian leaders had a sense of urgency to disseminate an authoritative body of knowledge, pursue further discoveries, and provide a deeper understanding to the public at a time when American society was changing.

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    One Lens for Multiple Archives: A Pan-Institutional Survey of Born Digital Holdings

    • Date: May 28, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Summary of pan-Smithsonian survey of born digital collections holdings at archives and museums at the Smithsonian.

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  15. Clipping from EBONY September 1990 issue, page 92 featuring photographs of people at the Field to Factory exhibit installation in Anchorage, Alaska.

    The Women Behind the "Field to Factory" Exhibition

    • Date: October 6, 2022
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Current headlines about war and the impact of forced migration on women are stark reminders of historic migrations and how women adapted and took on new roles.In 1987, Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940 premiered at the National Museum of American History.

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    A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

    • Date: March 13, 2014
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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  19. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

    Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

    • Date: February 26, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  21. Black and white image of man seated.

    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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  23. Michael Pahn, Media Archivist, National Museum of the American Indian.

    Who's Answering Your Questions

    • Date: October 16, 2012
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Meet the people who will be answering your questions about your personal archives from 10-5, today, October 17th, 2012.

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