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    See Here: 5/19/2010

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the

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    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    Link Love: 11/02/2018

    • Date: November 2, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Halloween is over, but you can prepare for next year’s festivities with these costume ideas from the Archives of American Art. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The National Zoo’s naked mole-rat colony is still in anarchy! [via DCist]See sixty of this year’s top wildlife photographs submitted to the Windland Smith Rice Awards either online or in person at the National Museum of

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    Where in the World Is That Field Book?

    • Date: July 28, 2016
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: Field books are now on our website. Not only that, but they are becoming full text searchable.

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  9. Everything I Own

    • Date: February 6, 2020
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Some refer to the Smithsonian as "America's Attic." It probably earned this nickname because throughout its history, the Smithsonian has acquired artifacts, relics, paintings, personal collections, and even hair samples related to the Commander in Chief (yes, the National Museum of American History has a collection of presidential hairs!).With Presidents' Day coming up on

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    Archives Puzzles: Getting Schooled

    • Date: November 9, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  13. Portrait photograph of Ganz.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cheryl R. Ganz

    • Date: May 26, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Tragedy, Towers, and Romance at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 14, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6823,size=150,left] On this Valentine’s Day, you might wonder if Cupid has ever shot any arrows around the Institution. The Smithsonian has been the site of many romances and even some tragedies, so today I’ll tell a story which combines both. In the process of recording his oral history interviews, Dr. T. Dale Stewart, a physical anthropologist at the

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  17. Black-and-white close-up photograph of Elizabeth Broun.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Broun

    • Date: December 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, 1989–2016, oversaw major renovations, welcomed groundbreaking exhibitions, and diversified the museum’s collections. She served as the museum’s Chief Curator and Assistant Director, 1983–88. #Groundbreaker

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    See Here: 12/22/2010

    • Date: December 22, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="A fiberglass reconstruction of the jaws of an extinct 40-foot long shark, bearing one row of real fossil teeth in the front and several rows of plastic replica teeth behind, for National Museum of Natural History exhibit "Fossils: The History of Life," 1985, by Chip Clark, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    Old Photos, New Histories

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are

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    See Here: 3/10/2011

    • Date: March 10, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="248" caption="Henry B. Collins, ethnologist with the Department of Anthropology, United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, conducted field work in Florida in the winter of 1927-1928, In this photo, Collins holds up a recently caught fish, and Mrs. W. E. Colton is seated next to Collins, c. 1927-1928, by

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