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    Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: September 21, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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    Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

    • Date: January 24, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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  5. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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    Some Archives Technologist Career Advice

    • Date: May 24, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: This is the latest post in our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professionals. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Check out our previous posts, and don’t be afraid to let us know who you would like to hear from next!The Archives has

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    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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  11. Dave Walker, Audio Digitization Specialist, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage

    Ask an Archivist: Bring Your Questions Monday, October 27

    • Date: October 24, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In celebration of Archives Month, join us Monday, October 27th, 10am to 4pm ET, where four of our archivists specializing in audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (or electronic records) will be on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about your own archival collections. Questions from our readers in the past have ranged from storing letter and

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    Suppose We Decide to Dispose

    • Date: October 28, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Interior of Office of Printing and Photographic Service's cold storage vault, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 4 Folder September 1983, Negative Number 2004-10338."][/caption] To be sure, the Smithsonian has a lot of photographs. Millions of them in hundreds of

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    Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

    • Date: November 7, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.

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    “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered

    • Date: March 27, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Elizabeth Tashjiaan, American painter, 1912-2007, Smithsonian American Art Museum"][/caption]Looking at this photo of artist Elizabeth Tashjian in our new set of portraits of women artists at the Smithsonian Commons on Flickr, it seemed obvious to me that I was looking at a professionally-trained artist, who in fact, won

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  19. Science Service biology editor Frank Thone (1891-1949), mid-1940s, by Fremont Davis. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2009-4197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Laughing All the Way

    • Date: April 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Humor and its manifestation at Science Service.

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  21. National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Day, September 4, 1977, by Richard Hofmeister, Accession 11-009, Smithsonian Photographic Services, Photographic Collection, 1971-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 77-12428-2A.

    National Air and Space Frisbee Festival

    • Date: June 12, 2014
    • Description: A brief look into the 1977, 1978 and 1979 National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Festival held on the National Mall.

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    A Friendship Revealed – and Revived?

    • Date: March 8, 2018
    • Description: It was, most likely, a foggy day in Oakland in 1882 when Miss Adelia Gates crossed the intersection of 12th and Washington streets and approached the Lemmon Herbarium.At 57, Adelia Gates was an accomplished artist and well-accustomed to new situations. She’d traveled alone to Scandinavia, Mallorca, Italy, and Algeria, and she’d lived in Switzerland while studying watercolor

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