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    Photography's Colorful Past

    • Date: January 14, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4168" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Albumen portrait of the Reverend Levi L. Hill, Baptist minister and early daguerreotypist, West Kill, New York and New York City, b. 1816-d. February 9, 1865. Inscription on reverse, “Levi L. Hill, Died February 9, 1865, He is Asleep in Heaven.”"][/caption] Just when we think that we must have at last

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  3. SI History Chronology

    First Meeting of the Establishment

    • Date: August 1, 1849

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    Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist

    • Date: February 27, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.

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  7. Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe at age 19, wearing her Cartier engagement ring (part of the sale). Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s.

    James Smithson and “The Duchess”: The Sotheby’s Sale of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe’s Property

    • Date: May 27, 2015
    • Description: As a remarkable auction of artifacts of a bygone aristocratic world takes place, we look at a surprising connection between Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe and the Smithsonian’s founding benefactor, James Smithson

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  9. The damaged nudibranch field book

    Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology

    • Date: November 15, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!

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  11. SI History Chronology

    Smithsonian Participates in Expositions

    • Date: Fall/Winter, 1884

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    Smithsonian Distributes Its First Circular on Meteorology

    • Date: November 1, 1848

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    The Bigger Picture | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Smithsonian Grounds Are Fenced & Planted

      • Date: April 16, 1847

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      Smithsonian Institution Legislation Amended

      • Date: March 12, 1894

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      Act to Care for Smithsonian Grounds Passes

      • Date: August 12, 1848

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    • This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

      Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

      • Date: November 14, 2013
      • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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