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  1. Smithsonian Legal Document

    Smithsonian Institution, Board of Regents, Minutes, 1859

    • Date: 1879 February 15, 1859
    • Creator: Board of Regents
    • Creator: Board of Regents

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    National Museum of American History

    • Date: September 16, 2013
    • Description: The National Museum of American History first opened to the public in 1964 as the Museum of History and Technology. In 1980, a bill signed by President Jimmy Carter changed the museum’s name to the National Museum of American History. The postcards in this gallery show objects on display at the museum, as well as views of the building. Some objects that are now in the National

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  5. Finding Aid

    SIA RU007307, Greeley, Frederick A (Frederick Atwood) 1896-1980, Frederick Atwood Greeley Papers, 1920-1979

    • Date: 1920 1920-1979
    • Creator: Greeley, Frederick Atwood, 1896-1980
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  7. Blog Post

    Stellar Evolution: A Journey with Chandra

    • Date: April 25, 2012
    • Description: The Chandra X-ray Observatory explains the origins of recently added image of stellar evolution to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons stream.

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    Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

    • Date: September 13, 2013
    • Description: The Cooper Union Museum, now known as the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, became a part of the Smithsonian on October 9, 1967. The museum is dedicated to studying and spreading public understanding of historic and contemporary design. The postcards in this gallery show works of art from Cooper-Hewitt’s collections and objects associated with Cooper-Hewitt.

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  11. Document

    Torch 09/1959

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1959 Box 1 Folder 9

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  13. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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  15. An image from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories website showing Barro Colorado Island an the location of the 50-ha plot and a visualization of data collected by the Forest Dynamics Project.

    How to Fit a Forest in Five Boxes

    • Date: February 11, 2014
    • Description: Field maps illuminate the origins of the Smithsonian’s long-term forest-monitoring project.

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  17. Blog Post

    Star Birth, Star Death

    • Date: January 31, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Today, three new images of starbursts and colliding galaxies from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory’s Chandra X-ray team were uploaded to the Smithsonian's Flickr Commons stream.

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    National Air and Space Museum

    • Date: September 16, 2013
    • Description: The National Air Museum was created by a congressional act on August 12, 1946. Its name was changed to the National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in 1966 as part of a congressional act authorizing a separate building to house its collections. The museum opened to the public on July 1, 1976. The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center located in Chantilly, Virginia, opened to the public on

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  21. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

    • Date: June 29, 2021
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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    Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834-1906

    • Date: April 14, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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