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  1. President Nixon with Elvis Presley, December 21, 1970, Roll-Frame number: WHPO 5364-18.

    Link Love: 12/4/2015

    • Date: December 4, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Nixon Presidential Library and Museum releases 66,000 more documents from his White House days. [via InfoDocket]The Smithsonian's first blog, Eye Level, from the Smithsonian American Art Museum just celebrated its 10th year! [via Eye Level]Not many people know why the Smithsonian was founded, and the extraordinary set of circumstances that had to take place for it to happen.

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    SIA Acc. 00-001, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Department of the History of Science and Technology, Exhibition Records, c. 1979-1990, and undated

    • Date: 1979 1979-1990 c 1979-1990, and undated
    • Creator: National Museum of American History. Department of the History of Science and Technology
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    A Tale of Two Sisters

    • Date: August 4, 2021
    • Description: Why would an English chemist donate his fortune to the United States, a newly formed country he had never visited? We will likely never know exactly why in 1826 James Smithson chose to bequeath more than half a million dollars to create the Smithsonian Institution.

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  7. The original black-paged album, a document box with archival file folders for historic documents and oversize pictures, and the new preservation album, with the photos stabilized with Mylar corners (also, note a piece of thick paper, acrylic square, and the small glass frog paperweight, which were placed on the photograph to keep it in place while the corners were slipped on from the sides).

    Thanks(giving) for the memories—a preservation family project

    • Date: November 24, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: When you’re all gathered together, sometimes there are just too many cooks in the kitchen, or younger siblings underfoot. Not everyone is into football or jigsaw puzzles, so why not gather together a couple of people from separate generations and branches of the family tree and do some photo identification and preservation? Set aside an hour between or after the meal to pull

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  9. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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    Torch 11/1975

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      Torch 11/1975

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1975 Box 1 Folder 11

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    • Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

      Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

      • Date: December 26, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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      SIA RU000337, Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary for History and Art, American Revolution Bicentennial Records, 1962-1982

      • Date: 1962 1962-1982
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary for History and Art
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA RU000295, Smithsonian Institution Contracts Office, Grants and Contracts, 1962-1979

      • Date: 1962 1962-1979
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Contracts Office
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Photos, Guns, Africa, Stanley, & Kalulu

      • Date: August 26, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Emergency Preparedness: Because There May Come a Day…

      • Date: May 3, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: When disaster strikes your collections, it can be stressful, especially if you’ve neglected that emergency preparedness plan. MayDay is the perfect time each year to revisit preparedness, salvage, and recovery plans, and here are a few keys things to make sure you include to aid in your disaster response.

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