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    Torch 03/1975

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1975 Box 1 Folder 3

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    Torch 03/1975

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    • Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

      Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

      • Date: January 25, 2011
      • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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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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      Torch 06/1969

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1969 Box 1 Folder 6

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    • 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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      The Archives of Visibility

      • Date: February 11, 2010
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Torch 12/1977

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1977 Box 1 Folder 12

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      SIA Acc. T90126, Smithsonian Institution Press, Postcards, 1931, 1956, and undated

      • Date: 1931 1931, 1956, and undated
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Press
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      The Bigger Picture - Page 166|Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        The Bigger Picture - Page 166|Smithsonian Institution Archives

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          The Bigger Picture - Page 166|Smithsonian Institution Archives

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