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    1. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

      Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

      • Date: January 28, 2021
      • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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    3. Portrait of Darling. He is wearing a suit and tie and thick, round glasses.

      “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

      • Date: May 7, 2020
      • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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      Looking Death in the Face

      • Date: February 1, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Moseley, Greenwood Cemetery, 1998, by Titus Brooks Heagins, Digital photograph, Anacostia Community Museum, Titus Brooks Heagins Collection, Gift of Titus Brooks Heagins, © 1998 Titus Brooks Heagins, PH 2005.7010.01."][/caption] At one point, early in CNN’s round-the-clock television coverage of Haiti after the earthquake

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    7. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

      • Date: March 30, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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      Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

      • Date: March 8, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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    11. Mieri stands in front of an exhibit case with a panel, titled

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Magdalena Mieri

      • Date: November 3, 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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      Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

      • Date: August 3, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than

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    15. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    17. Giant Panda researcher Devra Kleiman records Hsing-Hsing's vocalizations.

      The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman

      • Date: May 25, 2010
      • 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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    19. Portrait photograph of Evangelestia-Dougherty. Trees are in the background.

      Smithsonian Names Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

      • Date: October 6, 2021
      • Description: On October 5, 2021, the Smithsonian announced that Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty will be the new director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Nov. 6.

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      The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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    23. A woman presents an award to a man. They are shaking hands.

      Smithsonian Spotlight: Carmen E. Turner

      • Date: February 20, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: How does one climb from working as a clerk typist to being appointed second-in-command at the Smithsonian? Meet Carmen Turner.

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