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    1. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

      Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

      • Date: January 28, 2021
      • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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      Kodak Girl

      • Date: March 23, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="181" caption="Edmonia Lewis, National Portrait Gallery"][/caption] In Kodak and the Lens of Nostalgia (2000), Nancy Martha West describes how the company—marketing the first box cameras in the 1890s—aggressively targeted female consumers, hoping they’d “see photography not only as a necessary component of domestic life but as an integral

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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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      Will the Real Georgia O'Keeffe Please Stand Up?

      • Date: February 23, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="Georgia O'Keefe at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG) with Rene Magritte's sculpture "Delusions of Grandeur," 11 November 1977, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder December 1977, Negative Number: 92-1789."][/caption] It is always fascinating

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    9. Link Love: 07/24/2020

      • Date: July 24, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on John Lewis’s legacy at the Smithsonian and beyond. [via Smithsonian Magazine] The newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library awaits its first patrons! [via Washington Post][edan-image:id=siris_arc_389626,size=450,center]Paleontologist Lee Hall offers a handy (claw-y) guide to digging up dinosaur bones. [via Mateusz

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    11. Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe at age 19, wearing her Cartier engagement ring (part of the sale). Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s.

      James Smithson and “The Duchess”: The Sotheby’s Sale of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe’s Property

      • Date: May 27, 2015
      • Description: As a remarkable auction of artifacts of a bygone aristocratic world takes place, we look at a surprising connection between Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe and the Smithsonian’s founding benefactor, James Smithson

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      17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

      • Date: August 10, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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    15. Yak with long fur stands in the snow. It is facing the camera.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021

      • Date: October 12, 2021
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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      A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson

      • Date: September 29, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.

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      Archives on View: National Portrait Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition

      • Date: September 7, 2017
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full

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      Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

      • Date: March 31, 2010
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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      In Her Own Image

      • Date: March 30, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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