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  1. June 1, 1967, letter, De Niro to Hirshhorn.

    Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., and Joseph Hirshhorn

    • Date: June 17, 2014
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: A new documentary on the artist Robert De Niro, Sr. and De Niro's connection with art collector Joseph H. Hirshhorn.

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  3. Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People

    • Date: March 21, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.

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  5. 1883 Report

    Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

    • Date: May 19, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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  7. Title Page of the Catalogue of the Library of the National Institute of the Promotion of Science.

    The Fate of the National Institute

    • Date: July 27, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.

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  9. Throwback Thursday, Smithsonian-Style

    • Date: December 20, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Slide back through time by exploring historic Smithsonian spaces in these before-and-after shots

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  11. A man and woman stands outdoors in a rocky area. Both are holding the golf clubs and the woman is preparing to take a swing.

    Margaret Sordahl, Collecting Flora and Fauna at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Station

    • Date: December 2, 2021
    • Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.

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  13. 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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    Once and For All, the Chicken or the Egg?

    • Date: April 23, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. The Smithsonian Goes Telephonic in 1878!

    • Date: June 28, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9592,size=200,left]Did you know the Smithsonian was an early adopter of the telephone? In June of 1878, a system of electronic bells and telephones was installed throughout the Smithsonian Castle. The system connected several workrooms and offices to provide instant communications within the building. At that time, there were only 187 telephone lines

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  19. Auto polo (LOC), by Bain News Service, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.

    Link Love: 3/9/2012

    • Date: March 9, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  21. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

    “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

    • Date: March 13, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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  23. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

    • Date: April 12, 2018
    • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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