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    A Laboratory in the Jungle

    • Date: September 9, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. An aerial view from the southwest of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1993.

    Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals

    • Date: July 18, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.

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  5. Washington Monument, c. 1920-1924, by Martin A. Gruber.

    Many Happy Returns to the Washington Monument!

    • Date: October 22, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Washington Monument marks its 125th anniversary on October 9, 2013.

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  7. B&W photoshopped image of creators heads on figures wearing graduation gowns and hats

    Link Love: 12/22/2017

    • Date: December 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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  9. Color photograph of a handheld field notebook opened, and displaying a sketch of a rural landscape.

    Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back

    • Date: May 15, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be

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    See Here: 4/18/2011

    • Date: April 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Aerial image of the National Museum of Natural History’s Rotunda shows the 10-ton Fénykövi Elephant in the center while visitors stroll around the museum floor, July 31, 1981, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 3, Folder September 1981,

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    See Here: 2/4/2011

    • Date: February 4, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A sculpted bust of Secretary Emeritus S. Dillon Ripley was unveiled on May 11, 1990, in the S. Dillon Ripley International Center, Ripley stands next to the newly unveiled art work, May 11, 1990, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder:July 1990, Negative

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  15. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

    Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

    • Date: October 28, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  17. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

    • Date: August 20, 2013
    • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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  19. Emma Wolman interned at the Smithsonian Institution Archives in 2009. Photo courtesy of Emma Wolman.

    Where Are They Now?

    • Date: May 20, 2014
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives catches up with former interns.

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  21. Table of what happened to the different prints. Alt text in images explains discoloring.

    When Digital Print Met Water

    • Date: March 26, 2020
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: What happens when your digital prints get wet and why is this important? Answers below!

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  23. 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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