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  1. Scan of a black and white forest fire prevention poster featuring the head of Smokey the Bear

    Bearly Survived to become an Icon

    • Date: May 27, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the

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    See Here: 2/16/2018

    • Date: February 16, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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    Ditched Once, Loved Still

    • Date: January 5, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A couple of years ago, in the process of curating Now is Then, an exhibition for the Newark Museum, I spent some time researching and thinking about the content, meaning and sequential lives of snapshots. Since their introduction in the late 19th century, inestimable numbers of those small, but powerful pictures have been made, looked at and saved—at least for a while.

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  7. Flickr user Penny Richards helps identify image.

    Un-Locke the Mystery

    • Date: March 13, 2012
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.

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  9. For the Love of Bookshelves

    • Date: January 19, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On January 19, 1858 renovations to the library located in the West Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building to increase space for books were completed.

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    See Here: 2/9/2018

    • Date: February 9, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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    Link Love: 6/17/2011

    • Date: June 17, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: For those of us too young to have understood the impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and to those who watched breathlessly as the it came down, this should interest you: an augmented reality app that projects a 3-D rendering of the Berlin Wall at its former site with the help of a smartphone. It was as big as a . . . The US Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity

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    See Here: 3/17/2017

    • Date: March 17, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    See Here: 1/19/2018

    • Date: January 19, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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  19. Alpaca and vicuña at National Zoological Park, circa 1910s.

    Sneak Peek 12/9/2019

    • Date: December 9, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Alpaca and vicuña at National Zoological Park, circa 1910s, SIA RU000095, SIA_000095_B48_F10_001.

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  21. Nile Hippopotamuses and Baby at National Zoological Park

    Sneak Peek 5/28/2018

    • Date: May 28, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Nile hippopotamuses and baby at National Zoological Park, 73-3818.

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  23. Photo of book spine

    Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

    • Date: August 16, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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