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    1. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

      Thank you, Volunteers!

      • Date: April 23, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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    3. Architectural rendering of a proposed design for the National Air and Space Museum. Information File, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives = 1/9/2014

      • Date: January 9, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look at some design from the National Air and Space Museum's past.

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    5. Wild animals of Glacier National Park, 1918. Vernon and Florence Merriam Bailey. Courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library.

      Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives

      • Date: February 11, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.

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      The Archives’ Hidden Women

      • Date: March 15, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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    9. Reference form for inquiries and use of collections, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Many Hands Make Light Work in the Digitization Process

      • Date: September 11, 2014
      • Description: Digitizing collection material at the Smithsonian Institution Archives is a group effort involving interns, volunteers, and staff.

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    11. It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours

      • Date: August 20, 2020
      • Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.

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      Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair

      • Date: October 19, 2012
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."

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      If a huge mass of garbage falls in the ocean and no one sees it, does it exist?

      • Date: May 22, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: The first thing that I thought of when we started discussing our new call for entry, "seeing other worlds," was Google Earth. When Google Earth first came out in 2004, I remember the novelty of being able to zoom into my hometown to point out details to college friends, and having them pan across their own homes and favorite travel spots. We could travel across the globe

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      For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...

      • Date: July 17, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="This is America...Keep it Free!, Dorothea Lange, 1942, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that’s continuing to spread

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      Link Love: 4/22/2011

      • Date: April 22, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="215" caption="Belle Grove, rear, White Castle vic., Iberville Parish, Louisiana, by Frances Benjamin Johnston, 1938, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print."][/caption] Oooo—a pretty resource I’ve not come across before. The Carnegie Survey of the Architecture

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    21. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

      Spotlight: George Tsaroff

      • Date: September 30, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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    23. NASM Opening Day Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

      Congratulations National Air and Space Museum! 40 Years of Celebrations

      • Date: June 30, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NASM building with a look back at several of the celebrations that took place there.

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