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  1. Aerial View of Barro Colorado Island

    Sneak Peek 3/23/2015

    • Date: March 23, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Aerial view of Barro Colorado Island (BCI), location of a research center for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), 86-10911.

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    Autumn in the SI Collections

    • Date: October 7, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="179" caption="Nehemiah Hubbard Homestead, fall leaves on the mossy terrace, Middletown, Connecticut, by Elizabeth M. Bazazi, 1998, Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens."][/caption] It’s October already and the beginning of full-fledged fall in D.C. Autumn is . . . [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Great Basin

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  5. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1989) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research with the naming of a geographic feature, Landrum Island. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Betty Jane Landrum

    • Date: June 3, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memoriam: Betty Jane Landrum, longtime partner and wife of reference archivist, Ellen Alers. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1974) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research

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  7. The payroll to slaveowners

    Link Love: 7/29/2016

    • Date: July 29, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The research behind Michelle Obama's statement that the White House was built partly by slaves. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is hiring a beer historian, but it does require you to do more than just drink beer. [via Washington City Paper][WARNING NSFW] 20 bawdy art history tweets for modern times! [via deMilked]19th century

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    See Here: 2/22/2011

    • Date: February 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A passenger pigeon Martha (named after Martha Washington), the last survivor of an American species that numbered in the millions prior to the 1880's, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, Her body was donated to the Smithsonian Institution and brought to the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural

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  11. The Life Behind the Photograph

    • Date: March 28, 2013
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Thanks to the Flickr community, the Smithsonian Archives knows the context for a photograph of Norwegian biologist Kristin Bonnevie.

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  13. Demobilized women soldiers sent home, 1945

    Link Love: 9/9/2016

    • Date: September 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: New to the interwebs: a massive archive of 150 years of photography capturing Russian life from more than 40 institutions and collections. [via Hyperallergic]Nominate your favorite .gov website for the U.S. Federal Government End of Term Web Archive! [via The Signal, Library of Congress]Why save a computer virus, indeed?! [via The Conversation]Giant pandas are no longer

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    Love It! Where Can I Buy It?

    • Date: February 24, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Ruby slippers, ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

    Link Love: 10/21/2016

    • Date: October 21, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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  19. A person stands at a podium. They are looking down toward the microphone.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sharon Reinckens

    • Date: September 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Sharon Reinckens, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, has served as Acting Director, Senior Designer, and Supervisory Visual Information Specialist at the museum, 1980–present. Reinckens also produced award-winning documentaries about African American artists in Washington D.C for the museum. #Groundbreaker

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    Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair

    • Date: October 19, 2012
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."

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  23. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

    The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

    • Date: June 8, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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