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    1. Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 96-122, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Contracts and Procurement Office, Contract, Grant, and Procurement Records, 1987-1996

      • Date: 1987 1987-1996
      • Creator: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Contracts and Procurement Office
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    3. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945

      • Date: August 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.

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    5. Aleš Hrdlička’s Measurement Chart of Harry Houdini

      Harry Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian II: Magic by Numbers

      • Date: February 2, 2012
      • Description: Details of a Smithsonian anthropometric measurement sheet made by physical anthropologist Aleš Hrdlička for escape artist Harry Houdini in 1926.

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      SIA Acc. 04-183, Whipple, Fred L (Fred Lawrence) 1906-2004, Fred Lawrence Whipple Papers, c. 1932-2004

      • Date: 1932 1932-2004 c 1932-2004
      • Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    9. Blog Post

      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    11. A duplicate of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, on display at the Smithsonian in 1972

      So Where Do You Park Your Lunar Lander?

      • Date: July 16, 2019
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: If you took a trip to the moon, where would you park your lunar lander?

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    13. Document

      JHP_Promoter_of_Anthropology.pdf

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      • Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

        The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

        • Date: January 9, 2018
        • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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      • Black & white photo of anthropologists holding up world's longest beard.

        Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme

        • Date: February 1, 2017
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker

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      • Finding Aid

        SIA Acc. 09-017, Smithsonian Associates, Audiotapes, 2005-2008

        • Date: 2005 2005-2008
        • Creator: Smithsonian Associates
        • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      • Authority Record/EAC

        Agency history, 1957-

        • Date: 1957 1957-
        • Creator: National Museum of American History (U.S.)

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      • Document

        SIA2010-0734

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