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  1. Scared to Death?: The Curious Case of a Pine Mouse

    • Date: August 14, 2012
    • Description: “Can a Rattlesnake hypnotize a Pine Mouse to death”? Questions from a typical day of treatment for a Pre-Program Paper Conservation Intern.

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  3. A diver in a wetsuit and diving gear stops for an underwater photo.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Laurie M. Penland

    • Date: June 5, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Laurie M. Penland, Diving Officer for the Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program, has traveled the globe providing diving support and training since 2005. She is also a professional photographer, capturing underwater photographs and videos for the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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  5. Yak with long fur stands in the snow. It is facing the camera.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021

    • Date: October 12, 2021
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    Adventures of an Ecologist

    • Date: January 7, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A Flickr Set from the field work of Helmut Buechner.

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  9. A woman sits at a desk and poses for a close-up. The desk has folder holders for papers and small objects, like a statue and two model boats.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jane Rosen Glaser

    • Date: April 17, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Jane Rosen Glaser was Director of the Office of Museum Programs (1976–89), Special Assistant in the offices of the Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities (1989-94), Assistant Provost (1994-96), and Provost (1996). During her long career with Smithsonian, Glaser organized seminars and conferences for museum professionals and published numerous books and articles about

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  11. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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  13. John N. Robinson, His Life and Work

    • Date: September 9, 2014
    • Description: I cannot, I feel, have any regrets about my accomplishments. What comes from art will just come. I don’t feel any need to strive. - John N. Robinson One of my favorite parts of working in an archive is the opportunity to immerse myself in other people’s worlds, to learn more about their stories and experiences. One such person I encountered recently was John N. Robinson, a

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  15. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

    Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

    • Date: January 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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    From a Humble Beginning: The Smithsonian’s first Internet Domain

    • Date: September 17, 2015
    • Description: The origins of the Smithsonian’s internet domain or address.

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  19. The Hayden Surevy Group, 1887

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: May 2, 2017
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this spring by researchers at the Archives.

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  21. “The Proper Thing to Do": James Smithson’s Journey to Washington

    • Date: June 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On the 190th anniversary of the death of Smithsonian founding donor James Smithson, we’re taking a look back at his posthumous journey, led by Alexander Graham Bell, to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.

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    The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

    • Date: October 3, 2017
    • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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