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  1. Opening of Box Containing Thomas Edison’s Graphophone

    Sneak Peek 4/2/2018

    • Date: April 2, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Opening of box containing Thomas Edison’s graphophone, deposited (sealed) at the Smithsonian Institution by Volta Laboratory in 1880-1881, MAH-44312C.

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    Link Love: 7/16/2010

    • Date: July 16, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: What Not to Wear: The National Portrait Gallery has a dramatic before/after makeover of James Monroe. Check out this great profile of our photograph archivist, Marguerite Roby. The NY Times Opinionator weighs in on in what exactly constitutes an “heirloom,” what this means in a throw-away culture, and the reasons why we save (or try and get rid of) so many dusty old things

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    My Day With Henry

    • Date: June 6, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: SIA just launched a new web resources dedicated to Joseph Henry, the first Smithsonian Secretary, his scientific career and his work at the Smithsonian.

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  7. Formal black and white headshot of a woman wearing earrings and a necklace, smiling slightly.

    Mildred Stratton Wilson

    • Date: March 3, 2022
    • Description: We’re exploring the career of a Smithsonian barrier-breaker in marine biology.

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    The Mold . . .

    • Date: October 31, 2013
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: In which our heroine takes on the Creeping Horror of…The Mold. Spooky!

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    Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right

    • Date: April 20, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Perfect, by Bruce Berrien, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] At the turn of the 21st century, as federal organizations and private corporations were competing against each other in the race to decode the human genome, a number of exhibitions that explored areas where genetic science and visual imagery

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  13. Page from a coloring activitity of rooms in the Smithsonian Castle. This one is of the library.

    Distance Learning Activities and Tips from the Archives

    • Date: April 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Whether you have a little downtime or you wish you remembered what downtime was like, the Archives is here for you with a few distance learning activities and organization tips.

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    See Here: 10/21/2010

    • Date: October 21, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="National Air and Space Museum's Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into Washington Dulles International Airport on November 16 atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier Aircraft, Using cranes, the Enterprise was removed from the top of the 747 and lowered to the tarmac at Dulles on November 17, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white

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    See Here: 11/9/2010

    • Date: November 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Laborers can be seen working on the laying of a new floor of marble and terrazzo, according to the Watkins system, in one of the Northeast Range of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, On the upper half of the wall models of boats can be seen, Canoes can also be seen hanging from the

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    See Here: 3/22/2011

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Image of an expedition member working on the skeleton fossil Sp. 22-27, Titanotherium, Scientific field research headed by Charles W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the U.S. National Museum (USNM), now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was conducted in 1931 and 1932, by Unidentified

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    See Here: 3/23/2010

    • Date: March 23, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="436" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance occupying the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History. On the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, making available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq.

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    See Here: 5/11/2011

    • Date: May 11, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The 1401, a 280-ton Pacific-type passenger steam locomotive, was moved just inside the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, The locomotive was built in 1926 by the Richmond, Virginia, works of the American Locomotive Company, The railroad car was too large to move into

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