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    Remembering Robert McCormick Adams, Secretary 1984-1994

    • Date: January 29, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10199,size=500,center]Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1984 to 1994. He succeeded S. Dillon Ripley who had overseen a period of remarkable expansion from 1964 to 1984. Dr. Dr. Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1984 to 1994. An

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    Smithsonian Digitization Update

    • Date: April 14, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Even if you have visited the Smithsonian in person, you probably don’t know that it’s comprised of 19 museums and 9 research centers. You can’t see it all by visiting the Mall in Washington D.C. since there are museums in New York and research centers in Maryland, Massachusetts, and Panama. Each museum and research center researches and collects around different topics, from

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  5. Marguerite Roby, Photograph Archivist, Smithsonian Institution Archives

    Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions October 29th

    • Date: October 28, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ask Smithsonian conservators and archivists questions about your personal collection on Facebook, Tuesday, October 29th.

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  7. Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) Staff Member with Chameleon Specimens

    Sneak Peek 11/5/2018

    • Date: November 5, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) staff member with chameleon specimens at Navy Yard laboratory, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-137.

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  9. Cortege Bringing James Smithson Remains to Smithsonian, 1904, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 82-3337.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: October 9, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  11. Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

    Understanding growth in insects: Dyar’s Law revisited

    • Date: March 21, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: How Smithsonian entomologist Harrison Dyar's field notes, now available on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, are improving present-day research done by Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

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  13. Director for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Maria del Carmen Cossu

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Maria del Carmen Cossu

    • Date: October 26, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As Director for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Maria del Carmen Cossu, seeks to provide all Americans a better understanding of the U.S. Latino experience, and to encourage Latinx museum professionals into the museum field. #Groundbreaker

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    Link Love: 7/22/2011

    • Date: July 22, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: I couldn’t resist this collection of beautiful butterfly and creepy crawly engravings from BibliOdyssey this week. The Smithsonian has created a new Facebook page in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the Civil War, which we’ll regularly be contributing to. Hop on over and like the page! Apparently, it was not only illegal, but criminal for women to vote! Photos uncovered by

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  17. Embracing the Crowd

    • Date: April 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When I started working with museums in 2005, the concept of crowdsourcing was in its infancy. That year, James Surowiecki ‘s book, “The Wisdom of Crowds,” was published and there were tiny experiments in crowdsourcing occurring in the cultural heritage sector. There were hesitations and objections about the whole concept within the GLAM (gallery, library, archive, museum)

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    Link Love: 7/5/2013

    • Date: July 5, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  21. An advertisement for packaged air featured in Life Magazine, January 24, 1944.

    Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning

    • Date: June 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.

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  23. Cape Buffalo at National Zoological Park

    Where the Wild Things Are

    • Date: July 26, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at the residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973 with these newly digitized images.

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