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    1. Attendees of the Field Notes Edit-a-Thon 2013, by Geraldshields11

      Field Notes Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

      • Date: June 27, 2013
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: This is a summary of the Smithsonian Institution Archives' 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on the scientific field books in the Archives’ collections

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      José Castulo Zeledón

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]Born in Las Anonas, near San José, Costa Rica, Zeledón was the scion of a distinguished family whose intellectual gifts and love of learning were common traits. His father, don Manuel Zeledón, was governor of the district of San José for thirty years, and a man of great integrity. From earliest childhood José was interested in birds, and began serious study as

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      Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Smithsonian Transcription Center!

      • Date: March 9, 2021
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: Help us transcribe the records of groundbreaking Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake.

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    7. Truth and Beauty

      • Date: March 27, 2012
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Maud Slye, was a pathologist and tireless cancer researcher whose contributions to the role of genetics and cancer were game changing.

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      Alexander Wetmore

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore was the sixth secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. He developed an early interest in natural history and published his first paper on birds at the age of thirteen. He received a B.S. from the University of Kansas (1912) and and M.S. and Ph. D. from George Washington University (1916 &

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      A First Sight

      • Date: December 24, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Prehistoric paintings, Lascaux caves, France. Photo courtesy of Prof saxx, Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] Roger Shattuck, teacher, writer, and cultural critic (The Banquet Years, his study of turn of the 20th century French avant-garde stands as one of the best cultural histories ever produced), once wrote

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      A New Look at Home Movies

      • Date: May 31, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social

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      William and Lucile Mann

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9793,size=200,left] William and Lucile Mann forged a natural history career together, combining his skills as a scientist and institution builder with her skills as a writer and publicist.William Mann ran away from his Helena, Montana, home as a child to join the circus. John Ringling discouraged his interests and advised him to pursue

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    17. Washington Monument grounds ceremony at which Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 1927.

      Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927

      • Date: February 2, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.

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    19. Smithsonian Carousel on the National Mall, by Casey McAdams, Smithsonian Institu

      A Favorite - The Smithsonian Carousel

      • Date: April 11, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: The Smithsonian Carousel celebrates the anniversary of its opening on April 12.

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      Credits

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]The exhibition from which this website is derived was exhibited at the Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center Gallery in 1996 to commemorate the Smithsonian Institution's 150th anniversary.This online exhibition was developed and written by a working group consisting of Dr. Jane MacLaren Walsh, Dr. Pamela M. Henson, and Dr. Margaret R. Dittemore and

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      Matthew Williams Stirling

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish]Matthew Stirling's career in anthropology and archaeology was spent almost entirely at the Smithsonian Institution. Geographically, it spanned from New Guinea to the Americas, and his contributions to scholarship were equally as broad. Educated at the University of California at Berkeley and The George Washington University, he was both an active field worker

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