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    Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

    • Date: May 1, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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    National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: September 18, 2013
    • Description: The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) was created on November 18, 1989, when President George H.W. Bush signed an act allowing the transfer of the Museum of the American Indian into the Smithsonian to create NMAI. As one of the Smithsonian’s newer museums, the images in this gallery show the evolution of postcard use at the Smithsonian. The NMAI postcards mainly

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    Torch 05/1974

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1974 Box 1 Folder 5

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    WWI: The Smithsonian on the Home Front

    • Date: June 17, 2016
    • Description: Just as the war affected the home life of millions of Americans, it had a drastic impact on the three buildings of the Smithsonian. The biggest change occurred in the ‘new’ National Museum, also known as the Natural History Building, then the Smithsonian’s cutting-edge exhibit space. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, a new division of the US Department of Treasury created to

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    SIA Acc. 02-053, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Department of Design and Exhibition, Renovation Records, 1984-1993

    • Date: 1984 1984-1993
    • Creator: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Department of Design and Exhibition
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 19-148, National Air and Space Museum (U.S.) Space History Division, Exhibition Records, 1978, 1986-2004

    • Date: 1986 1986-2004 1978, 1986-2004
    • Creator: National Air and Space Museum. Space History Division
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Microsoft Word - FINAL_Joseph_Henry_Quotations.doc

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    • An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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    • Six festival participants on wooden stage holding ukuleles with visitors looking on.

      Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

      • Date: May 18, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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      SIA Acc. 12-375, National Museum of African Art (U.S.) Curatorial, Exhibition Records, 1981-2011

      • Date: 1981 1981-2011
      • Creator: National Museum of African Art. Curatorial
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Expositions

      • Date: September 16, 2013
      • Description: In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Smithsonian participated in numerous international world’s fairs and expositions. The Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915 held in San Francisco, California, was intended celebrate the completion of the Panama Canal, as well as to illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government of the United States, and to

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      Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

      • Date: August 18, 2020
      • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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