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      19th-Century Marine Life’s Role in the 21st Century

      • Date: January 25, 2011
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    3. Creating a barrier between the non-archival tube and the collections material.

      Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings

      • Date: December 13, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.

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    5. A Fish Story

      • Date: April 18, 2013
      • Creator: Ginger Yowell
      • Description: The United States Navy often consulted staff at the Smithsonian Institution when naming their submarines after fish.

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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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      Photo Sleuth: When the Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

      • Date: May 14, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: What happens when you have information about a historic photograph that is contradictory? How do you decide what information is correct? Check out how one historian grapples with these mysteries.

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      Battle for the Castle

      • Date: November 15, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    13. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

      The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

      • Date: July 16, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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    15. People standing around quilt panel with a design of the Smithsonian Castle on the upper half and small quilt panels and people’s names on the lower half.

      The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall

      • Date: December 17, 2020
      • Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.

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    17. The Life Behind the Photograph

      • Date: March 28, 2013
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Thanks to the Flickr community, the Smithsonian Archives knows the context for a photograph of Norwegian biologist Kristin Bonnevie.

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    19. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: November 29, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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      To Market, To Market

      • Date: August 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="U.S. National Museum, Street vendors at Center Market, by unknown photographer, 10/16/1909, Smithsonian Institution Archives RU79 Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, SIA2009-1992."][/caption] Interns and staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are digitizing historic

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    23. Throwback Thursday, Smithsonian-Style

      • Date: December 20, 2018
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Slide back through time by exploring historic Smithsonian spaces in these before-and-after shots

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