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  1. Female Lion, Trilby, at the National Zoological Park

    Sneak Peek 7/25/2016

    • Date: July 25, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Female lion, named Trilby, in her enclosure at the National Zoological Park, NZP-0104.

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  3. Chimpanzee

    Sneak Peek 3/28/2016

    • Date: March 28, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Chimpanzee "Soko" sitting on a bench at the National Zoological Park, NZP-0776.

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  5. Curtis Publishing Company Delivery Truck on the National Mall

    Sneak Peek 4/6/2015

    • Date: April 6, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Curtis Publishing Company delivery truck on the National Mall, MAH-P64376.

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  7. Two handwritten journal pages, written in black and blue ink. The left page is a list of books the author wishes to purchase and miscellaneous notes, and the right page is a summary of some personal correspondence.

    Happy National Limerick Day!

    • Date: May 11, 2021
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: Tomorrow is National Limerick Day!

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  9. Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Nicole Little

    • Date: February 10, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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  11. Blog Post

    Donkeys and Alpacas and Cows Oh My!

    • Date: May 12, 2011
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Silver Fox Rabbit at the Kid's Farm, 2008, by Meghan Murphy, National Zoological Park. "][/caption] Five years in the making, the Kid's Farm at the National Zoological Park opened in June 2004.

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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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  15. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Science Service: Up Close

    • Date: May 19, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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  17. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

    All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 21, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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  19. Mural of a hippopotamus in a body of water.

    Archives Puzzles: Hippopotamus Side-eye

    • Date: July 6, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Recently, the Archives added 254 new images to the web that are designated as open access. These photographs

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  21. A Bactrian camel stands in a field. The photograph captures a profile of the camel.

    Archives Puzzles: Hump Day Already?!

    • Date: July 27, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This summer, have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  23. Dr. Mary Baker, Research Organic Chemist & Museum Conservator, Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (1987–2000), used differential scanning calorimetry to determine the extent of crystallization in order to establish proper storage and handling procedures for spacesuits. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Mary T. Baker

    • Date: January 20, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Mary Baker, Research Organic Chemist & Museum Conservator, Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute (1987–2000), used differential scanning calorimetry to determine the extent of crystallization in order to establish proper storage and handling procedures for spacesuits. #Groundbreaker

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