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    The World Is Yours: Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives

    • Date: March 4, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives.”

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    Torch F5/B1

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000298, Smithsonian Local Notes Newsletter, 1916-1933 Box 1 Folder 5

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  5. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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    An Accidental Archivist...

    • Date: July 15, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: I was reading one of Holland Cotter’s reviews of an art exhibition in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, when I came across a description of a show that was about to close and wished I’d been able to see. At a space run by the Esopus Foundation, Bob Warner, a New York artist and optician, was opening, one box at a time, the cartons of material that another artist, Ray

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  9. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

    Board of Regents: Providing Guidance to the Stewards of the National Collections

    • Date: September 8, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    Do You See What I See?

    • Date: August 13, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1872" align="aligncenter" width="263" caption="Eyeball 1, by loonyhiker, 2009."][/caption] At some point, everyday, I scan the Internet for stories about photography’s role and impact in culture. It turns out that in addition to all the images that are out there to be seen, there are surprising numbers of reports circulating about the power of those

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    Photography Murdered Painting, Right?

    • Date: February 2, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Untitled, 1890, by Thomas Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95), Image ID: RU95_Box77_0021."][/caption] It’s inevitable. Whenever someone tries to recount or evoke photography’s impact on visual culture when Daguerreotypes were introduced in 1839, a statement

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  15. Letter from Herbert Friedmann to S. Dillon Ripley

    Letter from Herbert Friedmann to S. Dillon Ripley

    • Date: June 16, 1944
    • Creator: Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987
    • Creator: Friedmann, Herbert 1900-1987

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    Pamela M. Henson

    • Date: April 5, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Emily Niekrasz

    • Date: October 10, 2018
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Emily Niekrasz

    • Date: October 10, 2018
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  23. Beautiful Worms, by Wm Jas, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic.

    Mealworm Chocolate Chip Cookies, Anyone?

    • Date: September 1, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Earlier this year, I blogged about a recipe for “Elephant Skin and Ivory” (a black and white tinted candy) that I found in the 1984 National Museum of Natural History Docent Cookbook. Well, while researching the history of the same museum’s Insect Zoo for my recent blog post, I came across another recipe that I'd like to share—mealworm chocolate chip cookies.This recipe

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