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  1. Color image of an auditorium with people sitting and attending a conference.

    We Are Not Alone: Progress in the Digital Preservation Community

    • Date: October 2, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: An international community of researchers and practitioners are driving the professional practice of digital preservation towards greater maturity and opening doors to new levels of access.

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  3. Tractors gather in front of the U.S. Capitol, February

    Tractorcade

    • Date: February 21, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The story of the February 1979 Washington, DC tractor rally organized by the American Agriculture Movement to change agriculture policy.

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  5. Smithsonian Carousel on the National Mall, by Casey McAdams, Smithsonian Institu

    A Favorite - The Smithsonian Carousel

    • Date: April 11, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: The Smithsonian Carousel celebrates the anniversary of its opening on April 12.

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    National Museum of African American History and Culture

    • Date: April 18, 2011
    • Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture was established in 2003 to preserve the history and culture of African Americans. A preliminary design for the new museum was completed in 2010 and construction is scheduled to be completed in late 2015.History of the National Museum of African American History and CultureAdditional Historic Images of the National

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    Bibliography

    • Date: February 21, 2017
    • Description: Bird, William L., "A suggestion concerning James Smithson's concept of 'Increase and Diffussion,'" Technology and Culture XXXIV (No.2, April 1983): 246-55.Field, Cynthia R., Richard E. Stamm, and Heather P. Ewing. The Castle: An Illustrated History of the Smithsonian Building, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993.Hellman, Geoffrey T. The Smithsonian: Octopus

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    National Museum of American History

    • Date: April 18, 2011
    • Description: The National Museum of American History, known as the National Museum of History and Technology until 1980, was established in 1957 to house the growing US National Museum’s collections on the social, cultural, scientific, and technological history of the United States. The new museum opened in January of 1964.History of the National Museum of American HistoryAdditional

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    SIA Acc. 97-018, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, 150th Anniversary Program Records, 1992-1996

    • Date: 1992 1992-1996
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. Information Kit Cover for Operation Reindeer. Santa flying with reindeer is on the cover.

    Operation Reindeer

    • Date: December 22, 2010
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: You have probably heard of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen. Even Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. And I know you have heard of Rudolph. But do you recall the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s most famous reindeers of all? “Operation Reindeer” was the most publicized event of 1958. Fourteen reindeer and one caribou made their way, sans the open sleigh, to Washington, D.C., for

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  17. Cover of sheet music for the Transit of Venus.

    Marching Our Way to the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 6, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Sure, you’ve heard of famed composer John Philip Sousa. But did you know that Sousa composed a march just for the Smithsonian?On November 6, 1854, the “March King” John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. With roots in Southeast Washington near the Marine Barracks, where his father played trombone in the United States Marine Band, it should have been of no surprise to

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    Biodiversity Illustrated

    • Date: June 30, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: While the Smithsonian Institution is perhaps better known for its museums that pepper the landscape of the National Mall in Washington DC, its devotion to scientific research easily matches its dedication to collecting, preserving, and displaying artifacts of cultural and historical importance. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) started off as a small field

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    Storm War

    • Date: March 9, 2022
    • Description: A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind them and upon further investigation, they discover that all of their father's enemies are dead - victims of freak weather accidents.

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  23. Horse drawn trolley car along the National Mall.

    Sneak Peek: 3/7/2012

    • Date: March 7, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Smithsonian and Agricultural Department horse drawn trolley car along the National Mall with Washington Monument in background.

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