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  1. Checking the contents of the boxes against the finding aid to ensure all materials are accounted for.

    Project SEARCH Comes to the Archives

    • Date: June 16, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This spring, the Archives welcomed Heather Weiss, a Project SEARCH intern, and as her time with us comes to an end, we wanted to highlight her accomplishments.

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  3. The back page of the front cover and the first page of a book is visible. The notes are dated 1818.

    Rafinesque, Ready for a Close-Up

    • Date: December 13, 2018
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: When a television channel asks to film our collections, we want to show them at their best. Read how we accommodate media requests while keeping our collections safe.

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  5. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

    There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

    • Date: March 6, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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  7. New York World's Fair Map

    Walt Disney's Progressland

    • Date: July 21, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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  9. The indenture during the local humidification and flattening stage. The portion featuring the seals has become completely detached. Photo courtesy of William Bennett.

    Breach of Contract: Repairing the Walcott Indenture

    • Date: March 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how we preserved a recent arrival to the Archives.

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  11. National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Day, September 4, 1977, by Richard Hofmeister, Accession 11-009, Smithsonian Photographic Services, Photographic Collection, 1971-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 77-12428-2A.

    National Air and Space Frisbee Festival

    • Date: June 12, 2014
    • Description: A brief look into the 1977, 1978 and 1979 National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Festival held on the National Mall.

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  13. Group viewing footage of Ling-Ling on camera.

    Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.

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  15. Color image of a watercolor painting of cream cups

    A Friendship Revealed – and Revived?

    • Date: March 8, 2018
    • Description: It was, most likely, a foggy day in Oakland in 1882 when Miss Adelia Gates crossed the intersection of 12th and Washington streets and approached the Lemmon Herbarium.At 57, Adelia Gates was an accomplished artist and well-accustomed to new situations. She’d traveled alone to Scandinavia, Mallorca, Italy, and Algeria, and she’d lived in Switzerland while studying watercolor

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  17. Adelia Gates—Flower Painter or Botanical Illustrator?

    • Date: March 31, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. Challenges of Appraising Records in the Digital Age

    • Date: October 12, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: With the proliferation of records maintained electronically, appraisal has become more challenging and time-consuming.

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  21. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  23. Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Reformer and Civil War Nurse

    • Date: March 29, 2012
    • Description: A profile of Dorothea Dix, a Civil War nurse and advocate for the mentally ill.

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