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  1. Now Open to the Public (in 1922) - Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 13, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On November 14, 1922 George Gustav Heye's Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in New York City.

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  3. Link Love: 8/16/2019

    • Date: August 16, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own

    • Date: July 1, 2010
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:

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    Link Love: 7/30/2010

    • Date: July 30, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="210" caption="Portrait of a City Marshal by Barr & Wright, 1870-1880, National Museum of American History, Catalog number 77.43.1678."][/caption] Help the Smithsonian ID a Houston city marshal from the 1870s in the picture on the right. The extremely flammable nitrocellulose film used before 1951 led to an estimated 80 percent of silent

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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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    Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

    • Date: February 22, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  13. Shortsnout Scorpionfish X-Ray, 1908, Photo Sandra J. Raredon.

    Link Love: 3/16/2012

    • Date: March 16, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

    • Date: May 26, 2011
    • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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  17. Lonnie G. Bunch III stands in an office in front of a cluttered bookshelf.

    Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020!

    • Date: December 31, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2020, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2019.

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  19. Someone holds up the program for the symposium. The ceiling at the Kogod Courtyard is visible in the background.

    Recapping "Working Women: The Smithsonian Institution as a Case Study"

    • Date: December 24, 2019
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: Last week, on December 17 and 18, folks from across the Smithsonian and the public gathered to listen, learn, and discuss at "Working Women: The Smithsonian Institution as a Case Study," a two-day symposium, organized by the American Women’s History Initiative. Presenters celebrated women working at the Smithsonian and explored how they represent the broader experience for

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  21. Here at the Smithsonian: Planes, Design, and Time

    • Date: August 31, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: As Summer 2021 winds down, we'll take a look at some examples of the breadth of work and collections that are represented at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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