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  1. Portrait of Darling. He is wearing a suit and tie and thick, round glasses.

    “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

    • Date: May 7, 2020
    • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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  3. Link Love: 2/14/2020

    • Date: February 14, 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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  5. A person holds a fossil above an open cabinet drawer.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Selina R. Cole

    • Date: June 30, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"

    • Date: July 14, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,

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  9. Link Love: 01/22/2021

    • Date: January 22, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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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    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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    Link Love: 12/5/2014

    • Date: December 5, 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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  15. Roy S. Clarke Examines Samples from a Mexican Meteorite Shower

    Sneak Peek 2/22/2016

    • Date: February 22, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Roy S. Clarke, Associate Curator in the Department of Mineral Sciences at the National Museum of Natural History, examines samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, OPA-1447-09A.

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    See Here: 4/8/2011

    • Date: April 8, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="374" caption="A reproduction of the facade of a 19th century instrument shop of Benjamin Pike of New York City in the Hall of Physical Sciences, The exhibit opened in March 1966 in the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print,

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    Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator

    • Date: August 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States National Museum.

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    Never Just the Facts

    • Date: April 22, 2010
    • Description: For the last year the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has been preparing to celebrate its 100 year anniversary. As part of the celebration, curators and archivists have been combing the files in preparation for an exhibition of historic photographs that will describe the museum’s history. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="218" caption="Photomicrograph

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  23. An employee assembles a skeleton for exhibit.

    Sneak Peek 10/3/2012

    • Date: October 3, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: An employee assembles a skeleton for exhibit in the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History.

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