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    The Mercury's Rising. Again.

    • Date: May 30, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="This image from Mercury mission number four taken on Sept. 13, 1961 is just one of the many images that was written on by engineers. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University."][/caption] On May 16th, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral to watch the Endeavor, the NASA space shuttle,

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    The Quest for Walcott's Quarry

    • Date: September 15, 2009
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2239" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="881. View of the cliff of Mount Burgess from the west slope of Mount Field, three (3) miles north of Field on the Canadian Pacific Railway (British Columbia, Canada). By C.D. Walcott, 1910. 4 x 5" kodak film. Digital image taken directly from nitrate negative.

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  5. 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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    We've Got Mail?

    • Date: January 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Right after Thanksgiving, on a promotional tour stop for his post-presidential memoir, Decision Points, George W. Bush visited Palo Alto, California to chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a CBS News report, Mr. Bush mentioned that while he has more than 600,000 Facebook "friends," and now uses a Blackberry and iPad, during his presidency, he didn’t make much

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    Both Sides Now

    • Date: April 13, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her  1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with

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    To have and to hold (snap) . . .

    • Date: December 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="392" caption="Miss Gloria Smith (Wedding) Deluxe Wedding Album, June 24,1956, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Cellulose acetate photonegative, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Call No. 0618.278269."][/caption] If events are heavily promoted as being once-in-a-lifetime

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    Upon Closer Inspection . . .

    • Date: December 9, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3532" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Lorgnette Humaine, Scan from The English Mechanic, 1897 drawing of an invention using X-Rays to scan luggage, courtesy of Flickr user Mark Wahl, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A week or so ago, shoes off and stuck in the slow moving security check line at an airport, I became fixated as I

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  15. Seasons Greetings from the Smithsonian Institution Archives!

    Happy Holidays ! ! !

    • Date: December 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Seasons greetings from the staff of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire

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  19. Clipping from EBONY September 1990 issue, page 92 featuring photographs of people at the Field to Factory exhibit installation in Anchorage, Alaska.

    The Women Behind the "Field to Factory" Exhibition

    • Date: October 6, 2022
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Current headlines about war and the impact of forced migration on women are stark reminders of historic migrations and how women adapted and took on new roles.In 1987, Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940 premiered at the National Museum of American History.

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  21. Happy Holidays from the Archives!

    • Date: December 25, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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  23. Portrait of Cobral.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna Escobedo Cabral

    • Date: August 18, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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