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    1. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

      • Date: April 12, 2018
      • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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      Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

      • Date: December 23, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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      See Here: 5/30/2011

      • Date: May 30, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Under a banner for Operation Moonwatch, people are lined up at the entrance to a Satellite Demonstration set up in Biloxi, Mississippi, The Moonwatch Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory was created in 1956 as part of the Satellite Tracking Program and established to track and photograph the artificial

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    7. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

      Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

      • Date: June 9, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    9. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

      • Date: June 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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    11. Portrait of Kimberly Arcand holding astrophysical model

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kimberly Arcand

      • Date: January 4, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of the 2016 Smithsonian Education Award recipient, Kimberly Arcand. Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory visualization lead, Kimberly Arcand, makes astrophysics more accessible with coding programs for girls and boys using NASA data, and cutting-edge Chandra data visualization projects such as data-based 3D printed supernova remnants. #Groundbreaker

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    13. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

      Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

      • Date: August 22, 2017
      • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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    15. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

      Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

      • Date: July 20, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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    17. Smithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1849!

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

      The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    21. A white woman in a blue shirt and blue jeans wearing rings, necklace, and bracelet sits outside on a stone structure.

      Volunteer Spotlight: Julie Goforth

      • Date: April 7, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Get to know Archives volunteer Julie Goforth.

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    23. A man sits at a desk in an office. Papers and books are stacked on desks in the office.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

      • Date: July 21, 2022
      • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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