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    1. Here At The Smithsonian: The History of Aviation

      • Date: September 28, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Let’s take a look at some of the collections at the National Air and Space Museum.

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    3. Did the Curator Really Do It? Popular Culture at the Smithsonian

      • Date: August 1, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?

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    5. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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    7. Eucosma ragonoti barnesiana Dyar, 1903, Collected by Harrison G. Dyar, National Museum of Natural History.

      The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar

      • Date: May 12, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a

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    9. Color photo of Dr. Donald F. Squires, sitting in the Oyster Cove Restaurant.

      Dr. Donald Fleming Squires (1927-2017)

      • Date: February 13, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14492,size=500,center]Dr. Squires was a pioneer in the application of computer technology in science museums and the founding father of data processing at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He died on his 90th birthday, December 19, 2017 in Tasmania, Australia, after a short illness. Squires received an B.A. from Cornell

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    11. Model of the Quadrangle Viewed from the Southwest, c. 1979.

      Queue the Quadrangle - South Mall Transformation

      • Date: November 20, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look at the Quadrangle complex of the Smithsonian that encompasses the Enid Haupt Garden, the National Museum of African Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.

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    13. An interfiled audio record.

      What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

      • Date: April 21, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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    15. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

      • Date: June 29, 2021
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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    17. Jacobs sits across from a woman at a desk and takes notes.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Madeleine Jacobs

      • Date: July 29, 2020
      • 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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    19. Link Love: 1/18/2013

      • Date: January 18, 2013
      • 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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      The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman

      • Date: December 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.

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    23. Seven volunteer standing shoulder-to-shoulder in a reading room.

      #MCN50 Conference Next Week

      • Date: November 7, 2017
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: Behind the archivists, technicians, and specialists of the museum field are an abundance of organizations that network ideas, connect professionals, and present new strategies to broaden the impact of museums (American Alliance of Museums, Society of American Archivists, etc.). Many associations focus on specific aspects of this dynamic field and help to push museum practice

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