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      The Smithsonian and Latin America

      • Date: February 15, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has

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      Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

      • Date: April 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

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    5. Bird observations recorded by Alexander Wetmore in Wisconsin, 1901.

      Alexander Wetmore: Observing the Making of a Scientist

      • Date: January 5, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: On National Bird Day, a look at the long and illustrious ornithology career of Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore.

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    7. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

      All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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    9. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

      Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

      • Date: January 28, 2021
      • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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      “A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the 1960s

      • Date: November 12, 2019
      • Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.

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    13. Black and white image of man standing on boat with ocean in the background.

      Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?

      • Date: October 12, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific

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    15. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

      Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

      • Date: March 5, 2020
      • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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    17. Lonnie G. Bunch III stands in an office in front of a cluttered bookshelf.

      Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020!

      • Date: December 31, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2020, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2019.

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    19. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

      The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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    21. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

      • Date: September 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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    23. 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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