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    Science Service, Up Close: "Stealth Authors" and An Appreciation of Honesty

    • Date: March 24, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: "Stealth Authors" and an appreciation of honesty when it came to women writers of science in the early 20th century.

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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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  5. War Correspondents

    • Date: July 26, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Discusses the opening of an exhibit When Time and Duty Permit: Smithsonian Collecting in World War II and the correspondence files that will be displayed.

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    We Are What We Photograph

    • Date: April 23, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_541" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="Inscription inside Lincoln's watch, by Hugh Talman, 2009, National Museum of American History"][/caption] Does photography always report on the past? Recently, as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration, the Smithsonian took a closer look at a rare Lincoln object that possessed a secret message.

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  9. People work on the deck of the Albatross. The ship is sailing on a body of water.

    Archives Puzzles: All Aboard the Albatross

    • Date: October 19, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  11. Astronaut Sally K. Ride wore these clothes during her flight in space

    Link Love: 7/27/2012

    • Date: July 27, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Hide and Seek

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete

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  15. From the Walt Whitman Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

    Link Love: 2/17/2012

    • Date: February 17, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  17. Link Love: 9/6/2019

    • Date: September 6, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  19. Link Love: 4/24/2020

    • Date: April 24, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  21. Link Love: 9/27/2019

    • Date: September 27, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  23. Drawing of reindeer sled pulling Swedes with skiers alongside.

    Link Love: 12/23/2016

    • Date: December 23, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: From the look of this 16th Century book, Swedes sure knew how to deal with winter. [via Smithsonian Libraries]A rediscovered Christmas drinking song! [via Fine Books & Collections]Just in time for the solstice, ancient Japan's 72 seasons in a calendar app! [via Hyperallergic]The historic precursor to Amazon's delivery drones (a curator from our National Postal Museum weighs

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