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    1. Astrophysicist Dr. Catherine Espaillat, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, performs multi-wavelength analysis of full disks, pre-transitional disks, and transitional disks with the goal of expanding our knowledge of planet-forming disks.

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Catherine Espaillat

      • Date: May 13, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Astrophysicist Dr. Catherine Espaillat, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, performs multi-wavelength analysis of full disks, pre-transitional disks, and transitional disks with the goal of expanding our knowledge of planet-forming disks.

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    3. 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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      50 Years of Folklife

      • Date: June 29, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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    7. Program for Entertainment onboard S.S. Republic, October 10, 1925. Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, c. 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-007141.

      Science Service, Up Close: Watson Comes Home

      • Date: October 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: After successfully completing his 1925 European business trip, 29-year-old Watson Davis headed home on the S.S. Republic, boarding at Cherbourg, France, on October 2. The science journalist had covered the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science and discussed with Sir Richard Gregory (Editor of the journal Nature) the plausibility of

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      See Here: 7/29/2011

      • Date: July 29, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="At the July 3-14, 1974 Festival of American Folklife -- "Old Ways in the New World," Norwegian dancers perform the "halling dance" (men's acrobatic dance), 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder July/August 1974, Negative Number:

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    11. Archival document held by weights with artist brush nearby.

      A Medal-y of Materials: Preserving a Small, yet Robust, Collection

      • Date: August 31, 2017
      • Description: As the Preservation Intern at the Archives this summer, my main project was part of a massive re-organization of the oversized map cases at the Archives. An introduction to that project can be found in blog posts by previous interns, Caitria Sunderland and Margaret Rose Hunt. However, when taking breaks from the cool climate of collections storage, I worked on rehousing the

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      See Here: 12/9/2010

      • Date: December 9, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum

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    15. The ceremonial key received by Secretary Skorton.

      Welcome Secretary Skorton!

      • Date: October 20, 2015
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution welcomes it’s thirteenth Secretary, David J. Skorton with an installation ceremony.

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      Freaks and Geeks

      • Date: May 12, 2010
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: In the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we each have our favorite stories that are told through materials in our collections. Several times a year we might give "treasures shows" for interns or special visitors, and we pluck items that highlight moments and people in the Institution's history. We pull out a draft of James Smithson's will, letters from the Wright brothers,

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    19. Cover of sheet music for the Transit of Venus.

      Marching Our Way to the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 6, 2018
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Sure, you’ve heard of famed composer John Philip Sousa. But did you know that Sousa composed a march just for the Smithsonian?On November 6, 1854, the “March King” John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. With roots in Southeast Washington near the Marine Barracks, where his father played trombone in the United States Marine Band, it should have been of no surprise to

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      Saving the Smithsonian’s Web

      • Date: August 25, 2011
      • Description: This post is an update to Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig's post “Archiving the Smithsonian’s Presence on the Internet” from September 2, 2010. The Smithsonian Institution has had a presence on the Internet for more than sixteen years. It’s come a long way since then. Documenting the Smithsonian’s various websites falls under the purview of the Smithsonian Institution Archives...but how

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      Do you remember . . . ?

      • Date: August 26, 2010
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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