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    See Here: 10/29/2010

    • Date: October 29, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="James Smithson's (c.1765-1829) casket in the Regents' Room, South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," before its transfer to the Crypt at the North Entrance, Smithson's remains were brought to the United States by Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell, 1904, by Unidentified photographer, Black

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  3. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

    Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

    • Date: August 17, 2021
    • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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  5. Aerial photograph of the National Mall with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt covering the four blocks west of the U.S. Capitol Building.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022

    • Date: November 3, 2022
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.

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  7. Blog Post

    What are You Watching?

    • Date: August 22, 2013
    • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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  9. Iguana Management Project (IMP)

    Sneak Peek 12/8/2014

    • Date: December 8, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Iguanas hatching at the Iguana Management Project (IMP), Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama, Image Number: 89-7153.

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  11. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

    Some Conservator Career Advice

    • Date: July 11, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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  13. Blog Post

    See Here: 11/23/2010

    • Date: November 23, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Francisco "Chi Chi" Vitola, chief of labor force on for the Canal Zone Biological Area (CZBA), feeds a deer on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal Zone, The CZBA was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1924 and in 1946 was renamed the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, c.1940, by Unidentified photographer,

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  15. Link Love: 03/19/2021

    • Date: March 19, 2021
    • 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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  17. Cherry blossoms in Washington D.C. 2013 (Diana Alvarenga)

    Link Love: 3/29/13

    • Date: March 29, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly blog post with favorite links.

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    Link Love: 7/5/2013

    • Date: July 5, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  21. Forensic Anthropologist, Kari Bruwelheide solves cold cases—some as old as 10,000 years! She and her colleagues develop new ways to interpret evidence from bones and burials and are currently solving mysteries from the days of the earliest English settlements in America. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Kari Bruwelheide

    • Date: December 31, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Forensic Anthropologist, Kari Bruwelheide solves cold cases—some as old as 10,000 years! She and her colleagues develop new ways to interpret evidence from bones and burials and are currently solving mysteries from the days of the earliest English settlements in America. #Groundbreaker

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  23. Spencer Fullerton Baird and Daughter Lucy in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

    Sneak Peek 8/8/2016

    • Date: August 8, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and daughter, Lucy, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, MAH-3461.

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