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  1. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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  3. Spencer Crew, while director of National Museum of American History, at press event for opening of

    Sneak Peek 6/24/2019

    • Date: June 24, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Spencer Crew, while director of National Museum of American History, at press event for opening of "Paint by Number: Accounting for Taste in the 1950s" exhibition, April 2001, by Jeff Tinsley, SIA Acc. 11-009, 2001-3004-37.

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  5. Color portrait photograph of National Museum of African Art curator, Dr. Karen Milbourne.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karen Milbourne

    • Date: September 19, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Construction of Angelica Van Buren Mannequin for First Ladies Hall Exhibition

    Sneak Peek 6/18/2018

    • Date: June 18, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Construction of Angelica Van Buren mannequin for First Ladies Hall exhibition at National Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History, November 1972, SIA Acc. 11-009, 73-1221-25A.

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  9. Multiple Hearth Roasting Furnace

    Sneak Peek 12/30/2013

    • Date: December 30, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: "Multiple Hearth Roasting Furnace loaned by The Furnace Patent Co., Philadelphia PA." Department of the Interior Bureau of Mines exhibit at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, 1915.

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  11. True Colors

    • Date: November 21, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Contrasting black and white with color photography by Smithsonian Institution photographers.

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  13. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

    Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

    • Date: January 25, 2011
    • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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  15. Two photographs of a man wearing a fur coat. The hood is on in the left photo.

    Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved

    • Date: June 30, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”

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  17. A man points to a bent bolt attached to a metal support.

    The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

    • Date: August 19, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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    See Here: 4/25/2011

    • Date: April 25, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Exhibit of drawings by Japanese and American children, organized by Teiichi Kobayashi and Rebecca Henderson, wife of Edward P. Henderson, at the Transportation Museum, Tokyo, 1951, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9529, Edward P. Henderson Oral History Interviews, Negative

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    See Here: 5/3/2010

    • Date: May 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="359" caption="Photographic Collage depicting the standard exhibit cases with specimens and artifacts used by the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1880s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 55, Folder 7, Negative Number:

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    See Here: 8/11/2010

    • Date: August 11, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="365" caption="A history exhibit in the Arts and Industries Building of the first typewriter patented in the United States, It was submitted to the United States Patent Office by William Austin Burt in 1829 and called the typographer, Date unknown, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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