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    Ruel P. Tolman’s Images: Who Are You?

    • Date: January 12, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.

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  3. 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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  5. Wild animals of Glacier National Park, 1918. Vernon and Florence Merriam Bailey. Courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library.

    Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives

    • Date: February 11, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.

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  7. A watercolor of flowers with pink and purple petals.

    Link Love: 11/09/2018

    • Date: November 9, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  9. 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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  11. Former Secretary Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot blows out candles on a birthday cake at a Regents Dinner held in the Great Hall of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, celebrating his 100th birthday, May 10, 1972. Photo by Victor Krantz, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 72-5080-02.

    Birthdays at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 17, 2014
    • Description: Ranking 2nd in 2013 as one of the top best places to work for in the Federal Government, there is no doubt that the Smithsonian Institution knows how to throw a birthday party.

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    What Does an Electronic Records Archivist Do?

    • Date: August 10, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Do you still work with 3.5-inch diskettes? How about 5.25-inch floppy disks and Zip disks? I do. As an electronic records archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I spend most of my time working with digital information to help ensure it will be accessible in 5, 25, or even 100 years from now. Born-digital materials arrive at the archives in a variety of ways (CDs,

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    Photography at the Smithsonian

    • Date: March 6, 2009
    • Description: As Director of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative, I’m often asked what makes the Smithsonian photography collections interesting and unique. For me, the answer is less about size – although, the Smithsonian does have more than 13 million photographs of all types – than about function.

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    Muskets Issued to Smithsonian as Civil War Begins

    • Date: April 20, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Throughout the next months, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about the Smithsonian and the Civil War in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_496,size=200,left]This month marks the 150th anniversary of the start of one of the most tumultuous periods in American history—the Civil War (view resources from the

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  19. Clarence S. Darrow (center) standing near Rhea County Courthouse.

    Hearing Voices

    • Date: October 20, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Photography Murdered Painting, Right?

    • Date: February 2, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="251" caption="Untitled, 1890, by Thomas Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Thomas Smillie Collection (Record Unit 95), Image ID: RU95_Box77_0021."][/caption] It’s inevitable. Whenever someone tries to recount or evoke photography’s impact on visual culture when Daguerreotypes were introduced in 1839, a statement

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  23. Color portrait of Zoe Martindale standing and wearing a pink shirt

    Just Me and My Photos: Zoe Martindale SIA Image Cataloger

    • Date: April 16, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution has roughly six thousand volunteers and without them the work we do would not be possible. Here at the Smithsoinan Institution Archives, we have dedicated volunteers who help fufill our mission. One such volunteer is Zoe Martindale, who for sixteen years has carefully cataloged thousands of images and helped get them online for the public.

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