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    77-11657-13

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA RU000592, Smithsonian Institution Office of Telecommunications, Productions, 1970-1978, with related materials from 1938

      • Date: 1938 1938-1978 1970-1978, with related materials from 1938
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Telecommunications
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Finding Aid

      SIA RU009637, Smithsonian Institution, History of Smithsonian Institution Computing Oral History Interviews, 2016-2021

      • Date: 2016 2016-2021
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Blog Post

      Science Service, Up Close: The “Porcupine” Letters

      • Date: October 17, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A 1936 exchange of letters about the prickly porcupine preserves both a contemporary scientific debate and the wit and wisdom of a young Utah girl with a beloved pet.

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    • Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

      The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

      • Date: November 17, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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    • Webpage

      WWII: Staff Supporting the War Effort

      • Date: June 27, 2016
      • Description: When the men and women of the Smithsonian heard the call to duty in World War II, they again took up the call as they had during World War I. Secretaries Charles G. Abbot and Alexander Wetmore provided leadership that brought the Smithsonian’s resources to the aid of the nation, while safeguarding its primary mission: the increase and diffusion of knowledge. Once again,

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    • Webpage

      Smithsonian Gardens

      • Date: September 4, 2018
      • Description: During debates about the Smithsonian’s founding, the idea of using James Smithson’s bequest for a botanic garden was included in several drafts of the bill considered by Congress. In 1850, President Millard Fillmore commissioned America’s preeminent landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing to design plans for the National Mall, including grounds around the Smithsonian Castle,

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    • Opening of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1968.

      Design + Archives: Posters

      • Date: October 6, 2016
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.

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    • Document

      Torch 05/1975

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1975 Box 1 Folder 5

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    • Document

      Torch 05/1975

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      • Historic Pictures

        The South Yard

        • Date: March 17, 2011
        • Description: The South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, is bordered on the east by the Arts and Industries Building and west by the Freer Gallery of Art. In the late 19th century, it was the site of small buildings for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Taxidermy Studio, National Zoological Park, and Aerodrome Studio. After World War I, a Quonset hut

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        SIA2008-4009

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