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    Buster Keaton’s Donation to the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 4, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: One of the things we do here at the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) is keep track of original records about donors and the objects they have given to the Smithsonian—and so we have donor and accession records dating back to our earliest years. Because of this, it’s common to receive a reference request beginning something like, “My great-great grandmother donated a

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  3. Hot Topics: Edible Seaweed and Passenger Pigeons

    • Date: April 9, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain and Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley viewing the Hope Diamond.

    Crowned Heads

    • Date: September 10, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Royalty visits the Smithsonian Institution

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  7. Cortege Bringing James Smithson Remains to Smithsonian, 1904, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 82-3337.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: October 9, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  9. Kensington stone, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 38110a.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: June 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  11. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  13. Allergy sufferers can thank biochemist and bacteriologist, Ruby Hirose, for her research in pollen extracts. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3224.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: July 7, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  15. Samuel P. Langley studying flight of birds, 1901, Record Unit 95: Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MAH-21444.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: March 12, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly review of topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Adventures in the Morgue

    • Date: March 16, 2009
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the second in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. In a 1930s movie about hotshot newspaper reporters, you might hear the star (Jimmy Cagney, probably) yell

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  19. This photo shows the measurement - 2 feet - of the front foot of the elephant donated by Josef J. Fénykövi to the Smithsonian Institution.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: October 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A quarterly overview of research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    The Saint Augustine Monster

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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    Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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