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    1. NBC news commentator Edwin Newman

      Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions

      • Date: July 19, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting

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    3. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    5. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

      • Date: March 30, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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    7. Herbert Hoover before becoming President

      Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

      • Date: August 11, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

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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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      Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

      • Date: September 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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    13. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

      • Date: January 19, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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    15. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    17. -ray of the skull of Science Service astronomy editor James Stokley

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering Eclipses, Near and Far

      • Date: August 15, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Spectacular natural events, like eclipses, have long been the bread-and-butter of science journalism. Science Service, too, succumbed to the lure of combining colorful, firsthand descriptions with technical explanations.

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    19. "Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections

      • Date: October 10, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.

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    21. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Science Service: Up Close

      • Date: May 19, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    23. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

      Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

      • Date: August 4, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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