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      19th-Century Marine Life’s Role in the 21st Century

      • Date: January 25, 2011
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    3. Exterior of the original Corcoran Gallery of Art (now Renwick Gallery) designed by architect James Renwick, Jr. The c. 1930s image shows the building when it served as the U.S. Court of Claims.

      Revisiting Renwick

      • Date: January 27, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.

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    5. Hot Topics In Archives Research

      • Date: July 9, 2013
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    7. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

      Thank you, Volunteers!

      • Date: April 23, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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    9. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    11. 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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      The Smithsonian and the Solar Eclipse

      • Date: August 8, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian has a history of eclipse-ready public programming! How the Smithsonian has worked with the public in 1972, and today, to help visitors view eclipses safely.

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    15. An interfiled audio record.

      What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

      • Date: April 21, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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    17. 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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    19. Herbert Hoover before becoming President

      Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

      • Date: August 11, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

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    21. A duplicate of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on display at the Smithsonian in 1972

      So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?

      • Date: July 16, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

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      “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

      • Date: August 21, 2018
      • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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