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  1. We discuss strategies to preserve brittle black page albums.

    Ask the Smithsonian, Again!

    • Date: October 4, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Family Affair

    • Date: November 9, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1846-1878), and his wife, Harriet Henry, and their daughters Caroline, Helen and Mary with croquet mallets on the grounds of the Smithsonian Institution Building, c.

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  5. Lucile Mann, dressed in high socks, boots, and slacks, stands next to her husband in British Guiana during an expedition in 1931.

    Finding Lucile Mann: Tropical Fish and Zoological History

    • Date: March 11, 2021
    • Description: While Lucile Mann’s contributions to zoological history have often been reduced to her work raising infant animals, her work with the National Zoo and resulting publications demonstrate that her legacy should be reexamined.

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  7. Now You See It, Now You Don't - The Foucault Pendulum at the National Museum of American History

    • Date: November 8, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays, a look inside the Foucault pendulum that used to hang at the National Museum of American History.

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    The Vanishing Board: Governance at the Smithsonian during Civil War

    • Date: June 2, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Barn owls, named 'Increase' and 'Diffusion,' living in the West Tower.

    Residents of a Different Feather

    • Date: April 24, 2012
    • Description: History of the many barn owls who have lived in the towers of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle."

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    See Here: 2/17/2011

    • Date: February 17, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="James 'Jim' Mello, Assistant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, sitting at a demonstration loom in the National Museum of American History's Textiles Hall, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Negative Number:

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  15. Barbour, Wortman, and Gidley on paleontological expeditions, 1900-1935.

    Link Love: 9/16/2011

    • Date: September 16, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Wired Science has great coverage of our recent “Field Book Lantern Slides” Flickr Commons set, complete with more information from the Smithsonian’s Thomas Jorstad, who works in the paleontology department at the National Museum of Natural History. Yeek! A Dust Archive (for real!) [via Marguerite Roby, SIA].

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi

    • Date: June 6, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi, Supervisory Curator of Collections, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw the acquisition of nearly 37,000 collection objects for the new museum. #Groundbreaker

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    From Defense to Decoration: the Renwick Gallery in the Civil War

    • Date: August 22, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Museum Computer Network and the Smithsonian Institution: The Vision

    • Date: April 13, 2017
    • Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this first blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.

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  23. The Ritters aboard the Velero, c. 1934 Waldo Schmitt Papers, RU 7312 box 89.

    The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 3

    • Date: August 9, 2011
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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