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      Too Many to Count

      • Date: September 24, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests

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    3. Rube Goldberg and wife Irma interacting with the machine exhibits and attendees riding a bicycle. Photographs being taken of Goldberg sitting near his cartoons speaking to the press. Also, dinner table seating with the Goldbergs, Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and NMHT Director Daniel Boorstin.

      Do It the Hard Way, Like Rube Goldberg

      • Date: November 24, 2020
      • Description: Rube Goldberg, the subject of a 1970 exhibition at the National Museum of American History, produced thousands of drawings and comic strips, as well as, films, photographs, and over-the-top machines. A true celebrity in his time, Goldberg set standards in political cartooning and contributed to the development of thousands of extravagant and entertaining contraptions that have

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      Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

      • Date: February 22, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    7. Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes, June 1925.

      90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial

      • Date: July 9, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.

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    9. Six festival participants on wooden stage holding ukuleles with visitors looking on.

      Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

      • Date: May 18, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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    11. Two floppy disks labeled with the ZooArk info. One is from the rhino files and the other is from the tiger files.

      Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating

      • Date: January 14, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.

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    13. B&W photograph of steel crossbeams above a wide open room.

      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

      • Date: January 24, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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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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    19. Black and white photograph of a baby two-toed sloth in a basket holding the finger of its caretaker.

      A (Brief) History of Sloths at the Smithsonian

      • Date: October 20, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: …in which a member of the Archives staff turns her passion for sloths into a mission to research their history at the Smithsonian Institution.

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      Documenting a Life of One’s Own

      • Date: March 24, 2022
      • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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    23. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

      Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

      • Date: March 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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