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    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters

    • Date: September 10, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

    • Date: March 8, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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  5. Anteaters Association membership card issued to Marion P. McCrane for the 1962-1963 season, Accession 01-157 - Marion P. McCrane Papers, 1962-1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Everything But Anteaters

    • Date: June 3, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The National Zoo Park Restaurant’s Anteaters Association attracted off-season diners with its exotic game lunches.

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  7. Letter to Willem de Kooning from Joseph Hirshhorn, November 15, 1967. Record Unit 7449 - Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers, circa 1926-1982 and undated. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Artist, The Collector, and Quality Correspondence in midst of the Digital Era

    • Date: August 19, 2014
    • Description: Archived correspondence between Joseph Hirshhorn and modern artists Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall bring light to the means in which we communicate artist to collector relationships in the digital era.

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    Forging a Legal Path: Marie Malaro

    • Date: September 18, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”

    • Date: June 13, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.

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    Six Tips for Preserving Family Archives

    • Date: November 26, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: Some advice from Archives staff on preserving your family’s history. 

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    Walt Disney's Progressland

    • Date: July 21, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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  17. Happy Tin-th Anniversary!

    • Date: October 8, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: A retrospective photo trip down the Archives’ conservation lab memory lane, featuring folks from past and present.

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    SIA Acc. 16-069, National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.) Office of the Director, Administrative Records, 1984-2014

    • Date: 1984 1984-2014
    • Creator: National Museum of African American History and Culture. Office of the Director
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  21. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

    • Date: June 18, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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  23. Postcard - Dr. Gabriele Rabel to Dr. Frank Thone of Science Service, April 22, 1933, Record Unit 7091: Science Service Records, 1902-1965, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    A Rabel with a Cause: Gabriele Rabel, biologist, philosopher, author, and contributor to Science Service

    • Date: March 31, 2015
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Dr. Gabriele Rabel, Austrian born phyisist, biologist, philosopher, author, and stringer for Science Service in the 1930’s.

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