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    “Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo

    • Date: April 14, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.

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    Torch 01/1957

    • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1957 Box 1 Folder 1

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    CERP project summary

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      WWI: The Smithsonian on the Home Front

      • Date: June 17, 2016
      • Description: Just as the war affected the home life of millions of Americans, it had a drastic impact on the three buildings of the Smithsonian. The biggest change occurred in the ‘new’ National Museum, also known as the Natural History Building, then the Smithsonian’s cutting-edge exhibit space. The Bureau of War Risk Insurance, a new division of the US Department of Treasury created to

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      SIA Acc. 19-111, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Department of Education, Docent Program Records, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2007-2015

      • Date: 1991 1991-2015 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2007-2015
      • Creator: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Department of Education
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

      • Date: April 28, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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    • Authority Record/EAC

      Agency history, 1958-2021

      • Date: 1958 1958-2021
      • Creator: Friends of the National Zoo (U.S.)

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      Agency history, 1979-

      • Date: 1979 1979-
      • Creator: Smithsonian Facilities

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      Agency history, 2000-2015

      • Date: 2000 2000-2015
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Office of the Under Secretary for Science

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      Women in Science: What the Photos Say

      • Date: March 20, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption width="189" caption="Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope, Smithsonian Insitution Archives"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_238" width="162" caption="New Use for Light Reflector, National Museum of American History"][/caption]I was intrigued by a recent post on the National Museum of American History’s (NMAH) blog about the

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      Lucy Hunter Baird

      • Date: November 20, 2017
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_388904,size=300,left]Lucy Hunter Baird, though not a regular attendee of the Megatherium Club, held its members near and dear to her heart, and “assumed, like her mother a maternal attitude toward these young gentlemen.” She watched out for the members of the club and reported back on the rumors and reports that were spreading about the club’s

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      Torch 01/1959

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1959 Box 1 Folder 1

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