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      The Bigger Picture - Page 83|Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      • Untitled c. 1905, RU7179_Box1_F21_Heller05 [SPI_1655].

        An Ode to the Bicycle

        • Date: May 8, 2014
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: Time to dust off your velocipedes and bone-shakers! The League of American Bicyclists have declared May to be “National Bike Month” and have several events lined up to celebrate biking everywhere; Bike to Work Day (May 16), Bike to School Day (May 7), and Cyclofemme (May 11) .I love picking a theme or keyword and browsing through the Smithsonian’s collections.

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      • Link Love: 6/14/2019

        • Date: June 14, 2019
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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        An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

        • Date: August 30, 2018
        • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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      • Biological anthropologist Dr. Habiba Chirchir, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, researches the evolution of human and non-human primate bone density patterns to ascertain whether there are unique patterns of trabecular bone density among closely related species. #Groundbreaker

        Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Habiba Chirchir

        • Date: May 20, 2015
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: Biological anthropologist Dr. Habiba Chirchir, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, researches the evolution of human and non-human primate bone density patterns to ascertain whether there are unique patterns of trabecular bone density among closely related species. #Groundbreaker

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      • Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

        Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

        • Date: December 26, 2013
        • Creator: Ellen Alers
        • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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      • Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

        Women in Science Wednesday: Nicole Little

        • Date: February 10, 2016
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: Physical scientist Nicole Little, Smithsonian Museum Conservation Institute, researches the quantification of heavy metals in historic human bone as well as the identification of corrosion products for museums from across the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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      • Smithsonian Office of Anthropology Staff Don Ortner and Bill Crocker

        Sneak Peek 12/11/2017

        • Date: December 11, 2017
        • Creator: Marguerite Roby
        • Description: Donald J. Ortner, Division of Physical Anthropology museum technician, demonstrates use of equipment to study mineral concentration in bone on William H. Crocker, associate curator in the Division of Cultural Anthropology at the Museum of Natural History, MNH-1498D.

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        “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

        • Date: August 21, 2018
        • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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      • Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

        Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

        • Date: March 31, 2020
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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      • 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States

        Reconstructing William Temple Hornaday’s 1888 Extermination Series

        • Date: March 2, 2017
        • Description: A look at taxidermist turned conservationist William Temple Hornaday's "Extermination Series" highlighting the environmental impact of man on North American mammals.

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      • Detailed view of Mylar corners for panoramic housing.

        Perplexing Panoramas: Taking Charge of Housing Oversized Collections

        • Date: September 1, 2016
        • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
        • Description: With the ongoing reorganization of the map cases at the Archives, collections containing panoramic photographs, drawings, and maps require unique housing that provides adequate support when storing and handling.

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