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  1. Ellen speaks to visitors on a tour of collections in the Natural History Museum Building. She is holder up documents from a folder.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers

    • Date: April 7, 2021
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • 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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    Bruff’s Artistic Code Cracked by Clever Collaborators

    • Date: December 28, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research, including a translated rebus letter.

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    The Smithsonian Sent Healing Wheels to WWI

    • Date: June 21, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: One of the challenges of being a reference archivist is focusing on the inquiries received, while suppressing the bits of information you come across that may be of personal interest (the corner of my desk is occupied by an ever increasing list of topics I aspire to research further on my own time). Recently, however, a colleague who is familiar with my interest in rare and

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  7. Scan of a black and white forest fire prevention poster featuring the head of Smokey the Bear

    Bearly Survived to become an Icon

    • Date: May 27, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the

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  9. Dr. Clifford Evans and Dr. Betty J. Meggers, anthropologists at Museum of Natural History, 1968.

    Betty J. Meggers: Pioneer in Environmental Archaeology

    • Date: March 7, 2017
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.

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  11. Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn

    • Date: July 25, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”

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    Posing a Thoughtful Question….and Answers (Action, Direction)

    • Date: December 17, 2019
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Excited to research at the Archives, but don’t know where to start? Below are a few tips about details you should include in your inquiry that will help us help you.

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    Microfilm Reels in the 21st Century

    • Date: June 20, 2019
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief history on the invention and implementation of microfilm and our acquisition of a new, modern microfilm reader/scanner that enables us to provide digital access to and enhance the quality of SIA’s microfilm collections.

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