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    Mildred Stratton Wilson

    • Date: March 3, 2022
    • Description: We’re exploring the career of a Smithsonian barrier-breaker in marine biology.

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  3. Rewinding American Archives Month: #ArchivesAVTakeover

    • Date: November 5, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This American Archives Month, we teamed up with archivists and conservators around the Smithsonian for five Instagram takeovers to highlight the breadth of the Institution's audiovisual collections.

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    Animal Collecting in Liberia - 1940

    • Date: July 29, 2014
    • Description: Newly digitized footage gives us a glimpse of the 1940 Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia.

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  7. 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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    Link Love: 4/6/2018

    • Date: April 6, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Art history memes are back and better than ever. [via Bored Panda]The fascinating story behind the Freer Sackler's Peacock Room. [via Atlas Obscura]A new app, Seek, for identifying plants and animals, the "Shazam of Nature." [via My Modern Met]Speaking of apps, you can now create 3D artwork in Augmented Reality with Artopia! [via Colossal]And we have an app for Archives

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    The man, the myth, the lens

    • Date: May 17, 2010
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_6524" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Linsey Scott, Intern, and Michael Barnes, Photographer, from the Center of Scientific Imaging and Photography stand in front of the freshly remounted world-record Black Marlin that was caught in 1953 using 130 pound test line by Alfred C. Glascock, Jr."][/caption] I had the recent opportunity to sit down

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    The World Is Yours: Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress

    • Date: August 6, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Listen to reenactments of two articles that were published in the 1936 Smithsonian Annual Report as broadcast during The World Is Yours episode “Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress.”

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    Secretary and Outdoorsman: Alexander Wetmore

    • Date: June 21, 2018
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12035,size=350,center]June is National Camping Month, and to celebrate we are recognizing one of the Smithsonian’s original outdoorsmen: Alexander Wetmore. The Smithsonian’s sixth Secretary thrived outside. Annually for 20 years Wetmore would make the trip south to Panama, to the same spot, Isla Iguana. There he would conduct his observations, record

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    See Here: 2/18/2011

    • Date: February 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="President Gerald Ford, former astronaut and NASM Director Michael Collins, and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley with satellite ribbon-cutting apparatus on July 1, 1976, are ready for the opening day ribbon-cutting ceremony at the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print,

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    See Here: 7/18/2011

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    Creating a Digital Smithsonian

    • Date: September 28, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by

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  23. A Fish Story

    • Date: April 18, 2013
    • Creator: Ginger Yowell
    • Description: The United States Navy often consulted staff at the Smithsonian Institution when naming their submarines after fish.

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