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    1. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

      Celebrating National Radio Day

      • Date: August 18, 2022
      • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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    3. It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours

      • Date: August 20, 2020
      • Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.

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    5. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    7. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

      • Date: January 19, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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    9. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

      The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

      • Date: June 8, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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    11. 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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      Magical Mystery Tour

      • Date: December 29, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.

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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    17. 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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    19. Here at the Smithsonian: Trips to the National Zoo

      • Date: October 26, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Watch two recently-digitized clips featuring scenes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1982.

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    21. Shot of a large elephant, captured from the ground looking up toward the trunk of the specimen.

      Here at the Smithsonian: Tusks and Tentacles

      • Date: July 27, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As Smithsonian museums reopen this summer, let’s revisit two main attractions at the National Museum of Natural History.

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    23. Washington Monument under construction with U.S. Fish Commission hatching ponds in the foreground and Bureau of Engraving and Printing building in the background.

      The Little Aquarium That Could

      • Date: June 23, 2022
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: It's National Zoo and Aquarium Month! Let's explore the early days of the National Aquarium and its commitment to the promotion of marine science and aquaculture.

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