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  1. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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    Photographic Opportunity

    • Date: December 10, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="172" caption="The Steiner Ambrotype, June 18, 1857, by Unidentified photographer, Ambrotype, National Air and Space Museum, Image ID: 2001-5358. "] [/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="190" caption="First Launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 24, 1950, by U.S. Air Force, Gelatin silver print, National Air and Space

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  5. A man and woman in beige shirts and pants stand in front of four elephants. Four men are riding the elephants. The man in beige is wearing a hat and binoculars around his neck.

    A Crafty Way to Support the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 14, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Tracing the history of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, created in 1966 to raise funds to support the Institution, especially its educational programs.

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  7. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

    Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

    • Date: August 22, 2017
    • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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  9. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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    Please Mr. Postman

    • Date: February 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Temperance Parade, Church of the Nazarene, Medora, Illinois, photographer unknown, real-photo postcard, 1908, Courtesy of Luc Sante, 2009."][/caption] One of the thrills of seeing—when you stop to pay attention to it—is how complex and quickly the process of looking and making sense of what we see happens. According to

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  13. Merzbach stands at the forefront of a photograph with three men and one woman standing behind her. They are in a computer lab.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Uta C. Merzbach

    • Date: December 30, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  15. A note written by naturalist Nora F. McMillan, found in the diaries of Arthur W. Stelfox.

    Nora McMillan and Annotating Stelfox

    • Date: March 23, 2017
    • Description: More than two dozen field diaries by Irish naturalist Arthur Stelfox are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives--what a note left inside one field notebook tells us about his network of scientist colleagues.

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  17. A large crowd gathers in the streets of Chicago near government buildings. The people are well dressed. Because of the type of print, the image is tinted blue.

    Archives Puzzles: Feeling Blue in the Windy City (But Only Because the Print is a Cyanotype)

    • Date: August 11, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Today’s feature is from the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Smithsonian coordinated all of

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  19. The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life

    • Date: July 21, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”

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  21. Visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance.

    Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in the 21st Century

    • Date: November 18, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: The Arts and Industries Buildings reopens this weekend with FUTURES, the first building-wide exploration of the future on the National Mall. Though we've written plenty about the building's past on our blog, today, we're diving into its more recent history in the 21st century.

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    Author! Author!

    • Date: June 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Back in December, I wrote a post about Emory University’s efforts to make the writer Salman Rushdie’s digital files available to fans, researchers, and interested parties. A couple of days ago, I came across an interesting report about a gathering, an “unconference,” that was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which

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