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    JHP_Henry_Namesakes.pdf

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      Postcard History

      • Date: September 19, 2013
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13918,size=350,right] Postcards, as we are familiar with them today, have taken a considerable amount of time to develop. First restricted by size, color, and other regulations, postcard production blossomed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Postcards were popular because they were a quick and easy way for individuals to communicate with each other.

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    • List of Prospective War Museum Exhibits

      List of Prospective War Museum Exhibits

      • Date: 1919
      • Creator: Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933
      • Creator: Holmes, William Henry 1846-1933

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      Torch 06/1959

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1959 Box 1 Folder 6

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    • Memorial Tablet Placed at Smithson Tomb, November 18, 1896, Smithsonian Archives - History Div.

      Memorial Tablet Placed at Smithson Tomb

      • Date: November 18, 1896

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA RU000324, Cooper-Hewitt Museum Office of Public Programs, Program Records, 1976-1982

      • Date: 1976 1976-1982
      • Creator: Cooper-Hewitt Museum. Office of Public Programs
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 08-158, Smithsonian Institution Office of Exhibits Central, Project Records, FY 1995-FY 2002

      • Date: 1995 1995-2002 FY 1995-FY 2002
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Torch 12/1965

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1965 Box 1 Folder 12

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA RU007381, Belkin, John N, John N. Belkin Papers, circa 1930-1980

      • Date: 1930 1930-1980 circa 1930-1980
      • Creator: Belkin, John N.
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA RU000104, Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for History and Art, Records, 1965-1972

      • Date: 1965 1965-1972
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for History and Art
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Ruth M. Blackwelder sitting in a chair, taken by Richard E. Blackwelder. Accession 96-099: Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-002961.

      Who Was Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder?

      • Date: March 5, 2015
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Mystery who Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder may be solved once her journals go up on the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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