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    1. Two men hold a young girl up in a trash can.The girl is looking directly at the camera.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2022

      • Date: April 28, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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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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    5. Close-up of a photograph of a snowflake with six points.

      Crafting the Archives Way!

      • Date: December 8, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.

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    7. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

      Hot Topics in Archives Research

      • Date: February 18, 2014
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    9. Information Kit Cover for Operation Reindeer. Santa flying with reindeer is on the cover.

      Operation Reindeer

      • Date: December 22, 2010
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: You have probably heard of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen. Even Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. And I know you have heard of Rudolph. But do you recall the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s most famous reindeers of all? “Operation Reindeer” was the most publicized event of 1958. Fourteen reindeer and one caribou made their way, sans the open sleigh, to Washington, D.C., for

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    11. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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    13. Trees of Christmas brochure, 1977. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-001: National Museum of American History, Department of Public Programs, Public Program Records, circa 1977-1994. Image nos. SIA2020-000651 to SIA2020-000657.

      Trees of Christmas

      • Date: December 19, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.

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    15. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

      Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

      • Date: February 21, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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      A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

      • Date: March 13, 2014
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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      Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

      • Date: February 1, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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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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    23. Female House Sparrows on Fountain Ledge.

      Meet the Birds of the National Mall

      • Date: July 3, 2014
      • Description: Have you noticed that the Mall is aflutter with birds? Dive into the history of the Smithsonian’s interactions with our avian neighbors.

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