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  1. Blue Whale Skull

    Sneak Peek 1/27/2014

    • Date: January 27, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Ventral view of a blue whale skull in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building.

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  3. Camarasaurus Skeleton

    Sneak Peek 3/10/2014

    • Date: March 10, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Camarasaurus skeleton in "death pose" on exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, March 31, 2003, by John Steiner.

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  5. Illustrator Lori Gupta Restores Color to a Freeze-Dried Crab

    Sneak Peek 9/4/2017

    • Date: September 4, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Illustrator Lori Gupta restores color to a freeze-dried crab at the National Museum of Natural History, 72-3698.

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  7. Blog Post

    Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

    • Date: May 26, 2011
    • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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  11. Dog Days at the Zoo, Part II

    • Date: September 18, 2012
    • Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.

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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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  15. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design + Archives: Star Search

    • Date: January 26, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    Link Love: 7/27/2018

    • Date: July 27, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395259,size=200,center]Check out the nearly 700 newly-digitized images from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973. [via Bigger Picture]Speaking of the zoo, cheetah cub overload! [via CBS]The Rocky Mountain National Park published over 210 recordings online including more than 60 bird species, natural soundscapes, and wildlife vocalizations including

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  19. Link Love: 10/28/2011

    • Date: October 28, 2011
    • 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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  21. a progression of 3 images of a brightly lit, round field of light with a dark hole in the middle and a ray of light projecting upwards.

    Link Love: 3/16/2018

    • Date: March 16, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Apparently black holes are not a one-way vortex we assumed. This image from NASA demonstrates objects projecting out of black holes! [via The Space Academy]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will acquire records of The Academy of Washington, D.C., an LGBT organization that produced nationally-recognized drag pageants. [via Washington Blade]You can vote on

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  23. Color photograph of dilapidated house in dark light.

    Link Love: 9/22/2017

    • Date: September 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for

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