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    Tips from Smithsonian Photographers on Photographing Fireworks

    • Date: June 28, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Note: This blog post borrows heavily from the article, “Shooting Fireworks: Capture the Spectacle,” from former Smithsonian employee, Jim Wallace (originally published on the Smithsonian staff photographer’s website in 1995), with valuable additions from Ken Rahaim. The 4th of July is coming up next week, promising picnics, gatherings, and of course, fireworks. You may have

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  3. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

    Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

    • Date: February 26, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  5. Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum.

    Sneak Peek 8/5/2019

    • Date: August 5, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.

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    See Here: 7/7/2010

    • Date: July 7, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities, 1934, by E. Hardy, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record,

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    Still Photographs That Make You Want Moving Ones

    • Date: November 24, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3065" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Detail of a vinyl advertisement, Chennai, India, 2004, by Preminda Jacob."][/caption] It’s interesting to think about how shrewdly and often free still photography is used to get us to pay to watch motion pictures. Still photographs—often shot by special photographers on sound stages or on location, just

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  11. Blog Post

    Save Our African American Treasures

    • Date: March 29, 2011
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian'€™s National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption

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  13. 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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  15. Front cover of an exhibition pamphlet. It has a brown-ish streak down the middle and a red cross at the top center.

    M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit

    • Date: July 30, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

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  17. Portrait of an older woman.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: April 1, 2021
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  19. Photo of woman in zoo tshirt with red panda and man in background

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Brandie Smith

    • Date: April 11, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Smithsonian National Zoo's Associate Director for Animal Care Sciences, Dr. Brandie Smith, oversees the care and of 3,000 animals and ensures the genetic diversity of the species living in zoos. #Groundbreaker

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  21. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

    There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

    • Date: March 6, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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  23. Forensic ornithologist, Roxie Collie Laybourne, created the field of forensic ornithology which has improved air safety through the use of bird data, by making modifications to flight plans and creating programs to scare away birds at some airports. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Roxie Collie Laybourne

    • Date: August 19, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Forensic ornithologist, Roxie Collie Laybourne, created the field of forensic ornithology which has improved air safety through the use of bird data, by making modifications to flight plans and creating programs to scare away birds at some airports. #Groundbreaker

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