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    Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion

    • Date: July 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"

    • Date: July 14, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,

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  5. Television and the Smithsonian: The Moon Party and "Instant History"

    • Date: November 27, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: On July 20, 1969, television broadcasters and Smithsonian visitors joined in watching history in the making when astronauts stepped onto the Moon.

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  9. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

    Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

    • Date: August 27, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Par for the Course

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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    Rediscovering Elizabeth’s Smile

    • Date: November 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

    • Date: April 8, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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  17. Physicists Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein, co-chairmen of the League of Nations Committee on Intellectual Cooperation, photographed by Watson Davis at a meeting of the committee in Geneva, Switzerland, July 1926. By Watson Davis. Accession 90-105: Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-5431.

    Science Service, Up Close: Lorentz and Einstein, Geneva, 1926

    • Date: October 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A previously unpublished photograph, from the Science Service "morgue" files in Accession 90-105, shows two Nobel laureate physicists, Anton Lorentz and Albert Einstein, in 1926.

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    Perspectives

    • Date: February 8, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Cathedral?, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-003197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Where Was Watson?

    • Date: September 15, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Help the Smithsonian Institution Archives identify the locations of Watson Davis’s vacation photographs from August and September 1925.

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  23. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

    Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

    • Date: December 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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