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    1. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

      Board of Regents: Providing Guidance to the Stewards of the National Collections

      • Date: September 8, 2016
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    3. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

      Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online

      • Date: September 8, 2015
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.

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    5. Hot Topix in Archival Research During a Pandemic

      • Date: July 9, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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      The Vanishing Board: Governance at the Smithsonian during Civil War

      • Date: June 2, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    9. Black and white photograph of a village with various structures on a hilltop.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2021

      • Date: July 8, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    11. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

      Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

      • Date: March 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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    13. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    15. Polar Bear at the National Zoo, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no, 2002-10612.

      Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo

      • Date: May 27, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A number of animals who used to call the National Zoological Park home are no longer there.

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      The National Park that Never Was

      • Date: August 25, 2016
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: This month marks the centennial of the National Park Service—learn about one that was planned but never built.

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    19. Two men and one woman stand in a room.

      Gender Discrimination at the Smithsonian Institution

      • Date: August 6, 2019
      • Description: A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.

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    21. View of the Smithsonian Castle in the distance behind a wall of trees, from downtown Washington

      The Smithsonian Castle Construction Begins

      • Date: March 19, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Building, or the “Castle,” is the most iconic of all the Smithsonian’s 769 facilities, which include its nineteen museums, nine research centers, National Zoo, and all of its other establishments. The Castle was the first building constructed specifically for the Smithsonian after it was founded in 1846. On March 19, 1847, a contract was signed with

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      Volunteers and the Smithsonian: A History

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

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