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    1. Base of mud brick grainery sile at Tell Jemmeh, Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, Number 9, Fall 1974. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 416.

      Miscellaneous Adventures: Exploring Lost Worlds

      • Date: January 13, 2015
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: This installment of Miscellaneous Adventures brings us to Record Unit 416 and the adventures in Smithsonian research across the world.

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    3. “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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    5. Majewski crouches down near two children, who are not looking toward the camera.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

      • Date: May 19, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    7. Color photograph of the National Postal Museum building taken from across the street.

      The National Postal Museum Still Delivers After 25 Years

      • Date: September 25, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: 25 years ago the National Postal Museum first opened its doors to the public.

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      Roy DeCarava: 1922-2009

      • Date: November 4, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="274" caption="Untitled, 1950/printed 1982, by Roy DeCarava, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase made possible by Henry L. Milmore, 1992.15.3."][/caption] Last week American photography lost another of its grand masters. Roy DeCarava died at the age of 87 in New York on October 27th. He was an

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    11. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

      Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 26, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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    13. Demobilized women soldiers sent home, 1945

      Link Love: 9/9/2016

      • Date: September 9, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer

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    15. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart

      • Date: January 3, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.

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    17. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

      The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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    19. Photo of fallen leaf art, by Saki Kitazumi

      Link Love: 12/16/2016

      • Date: December 16, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Japanese are taking fall to a new level! [via Bored Panda]The 25 most instagrammed museums includes the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery. [via Hyperallergic] Ireland's National Web Archive in Ireland let the public choose 10 websites to preserve. [via Info Docket]There's a podcast for everyone, including research librarians...check out the episode on Global Web Preservation.

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    21. Shot of a large, one-story building.

      Another Smithsonian Gem

      • Date: November 19, 2019
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Archives also preserves ecological research.

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      "Roughing" It

      • Date: June 9, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Having grown up in a major U.S. city with a family that considered spending a week in a grass hut camping, I committed to giving my daughter more exposure to the great outdoors with all the wonderful state and national parks near Washington D.C. However, lack of sleep and rehydrated food was not what I had in mind.Throughout history, Smithsonian researchers have conducted

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