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    1. Cover of sheet music for the Transit of Venus.

      Marching Our Way to the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 6, 2018
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Sure, you’ve heard of famed composer John Philip Sousa. But did you know that Sousa composed a march just for the Smithsonian?On November 6, 1854, the “March King” John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. With roots in Southeast Washington near the Marine Barracks, where his father played trombone in the United States Marine Band, it should have been of no surprise to

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    3. The World Is Yours: Glass

      • Date: September 29, 2020
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled Glass.

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    5. 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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    7. Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums

      • Date: July 1, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.

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      The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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    11. Portrait of Darling. He is wearing a suit and tie and thick, round glasses.

      “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

      • Date: May 7, 2020
      • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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    13. A person sits at a tables holding up a newspaper.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: October 1, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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      Do you remember . . . ?

      • Date: August 26, 2010
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    17. Home Page of the First Smithsonian Website, Accession 98-094: Office of the Secretary, Smithsonian Website Records, 1995, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2012-0382.

      The Electronic Smithsonian

      • Date: May 7, 2015
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A look back at the first Smithsonian home page, launched 20 years ago.

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    21. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

      Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

      • Date: August 10, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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    23. Registrar Card for Earthenware Bird Effigy Canteen Collected by E. P. Killip.

      Folklife Festival 2011: Colombia and the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 5, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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