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    Hide and Seek

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete

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    How Hot Was It At Bull Run?

    • Date: July 20, 2011
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  5. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

    Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

    • Date: December 26, 2013
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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    Are You Arty or Hearty?

    • Date: May 19, 2011
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.

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    Stumped!

    • Date: October 12, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Unidentified Washington, DC Church, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, RU007355."][/caption] Recently the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted some images from the Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection,

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    "If you feed them, they will come."

    • Date: May 23, 2013
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Operation Moonwatch created an international network of dedicated and enthusiastic volunteer sky-watchers of both genders and from every walk-of-life. These citizen-scientists joined professional astronomers to track and report on satellites travelling through the night sky. Food and location played a role in keeping volunteers engaged with Operation Moonwatch.

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  13. An American bison stands in the snow. It looks toward the camera.

    Serendipity and Unexpected Connections

    • Date: April 23, 2020
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”

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    A very jolly day...

    • Date: December 23, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah, c. 1907, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Records, 1902-1965 (Record Unit 7091), Image ID: SIA2009-0983."][/caption] Alright, I admit it. I often write about the Walcott family and why not?

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    Answer me this?

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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