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  1. An elephant lifts its trunk in the air.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: July 2, 2020
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    Link Love: 7/4/2014

    • Date: July 4, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • 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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  5. Alexander Wetmore in Panama, 1947.

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part I

    • Date: April 26, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A look at the characteristics of the thirteen individuals who have led the Smithsonian.

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in the early 1900s underneath Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle, were the makings of former Smithsonian employee and entomologist, Harrison G. Dyar (whose papers happen to be in our collections). Read more about this fascinating story and character at "the location" blog [via The e-Torch]. The Internet Archive explains

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  9. woman in classical dress slumped over an office chair staring at laptop

    Link Love: 8/3/2018

    • Date: August 3, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Classical paintings updated for the 21st century. [via Golem 13]The Father Andrew P. Kashevaroff Alaska State Library has finished digitizing the papers of gunslinger Wyatt Earp. [via Info Docket]What role does art play with all the pressing matters in our world? The Smithsonian's Secretary gathers a panel of artists, writers, and critics to weigh-in. [via Second Opinion] What

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  11. Hansen sits on a balcony ledge overlooking the water with another man. He is not wearing a shirt and both men are looking toward the camera.

    Capturing Panama with Carl C. Hansen

    • Date: June 15, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Today is Nature Photography Day, so we’re highlighting the career and work of Smithsonian photographer Carl C. Hansen.

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    Documenting a Life of One’s Own

    • Date: March 24, 2022
    • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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  15. “Flat John” Visits the Smithsonian Castle, 2015, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

    Science Service, Up Close: The Microvivarium

    • Date: May 12, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Today’s science museums build on the efforts of biologist George Roemmert (1892-1952), whose “Microvivarium” projected images of amoebas and other microscopic creatures.

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  17. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

    The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

    • Date: May 13, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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    Wisdom is in the head, and not in the beard...

    • Date: March 24, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution

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    Smithsonian Snow Days

    • Date: March 14, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Snow—not just found in the Archives this season! After a seemingly mild winter, the East Coast is bracing for some serious snowfall. While the Smithsonian shovels out, let’s take a look back at photos of historic Washington D.C. storms from our collection.

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    Smithsonian Scientists at Work

    • Date: April 20, 2017
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==75408]Scientific research has been integral to the Smithsonian, from its founding to today. The Smithsonian's founder, Englishman James Smithson, saw in the U.S. (according to his biographer, Heather Ewing) "a place of the future" that could support "science and progress for humanity." He believed that scientists were "citizens of the world" and that the

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