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    Wisdom is in the head, and not in the beard...

    • Date: March 24, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution

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    Smithsonian Snow Days

    • Date: March 14, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Snow—not just found in the Archives this season! After a seemingly mild winter, the East Coast is bracing for some serious snowfall. While the Smithsonian shovels out, let’s take a look back at photos of historic Washington D.C. storms from our collection.

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    Smithsonian Scientists at Work

    • Date: April 20, 2017
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==75408]Scientific research has been integral to the Smithsonian, from its founding to today. The Smithsonian's founder, Englishman James Smithson, saw in the U.S. (according to his biographer, Heather Ewing) "a place of the future" that could support "science and progress for humanity." He believed that scientists were "citizens of the world" and that the

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  7. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: October 4, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    Happy 100th Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: In celebration of Flag Day, a look at the series of flags designed for the Smithsonian’s museums and research centers, 1965.

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  11. China Ligantissima?, Mollusk Illustration, August 2, 1866

    William H. Dall: He had Malacology Down to an Art

    • Date: August 16, 2012
    • Description: Explorer, Biologist, and former Smithsonian employee, William Healey Dall, also had artistic talent.

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2017

    • Date: October 17, 2017
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_383399,size=180,right]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

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  17. The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III

    • Date: February 7, 2013
    • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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  19. Black and white image of Harry Walters, Navajo male, holding a blanket in a museum collection storage area.

    Harry Walters - Director of the Diné College Museum, 1973-2008

    • Date: July 30, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Before becoming the Director of the Diné College Museum in Arizona, Harry Walters spent three months at the Smithsonian learning techniques for the care and handling of artifacts, including their identification, description, conservation, storage, and exhibition.

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  21. How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?

    • Date: January 25, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of

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  23. Attendees of the Field Notes Edit-a-Thon 2013, by Geraldshields11

    Field Notes Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

    • Date: June 27, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: This is a summary of the Smithsonian Institution Archives' 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on the scientific field books in the Archives’ collections

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