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  1. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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  3. Color photograph of the National Postal Museum building taken from across the street.

    The National Postal Museum Still Delivers After 25 Years

    • Date: September 25, 2018
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: 25 years ago the National Postal Museum first opened its doors to the public.

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  5. “The Mutiny on the Amistad,” 1939, by Hale Woodruff. Collection of Savery Library, Talladega College, Talladega, Alabama / National Museum of African American History and Culture.

    Link Love: 2/6/2015

    • Date: February 6, 2015
    • 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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  7. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

    Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

    • Date: March 30, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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  9. Blog Post

    Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

    • Date: May 9, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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  11. A woman presents an award to a man. They are shaking hands.

    Smithsonian Spotlight: Carmen E. Turner

    • Date: February 20, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: How does one climb from working as a clerk typist to being appointed second-in-command at the Smithsonian? Meet Carmen Turner.

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  13. Black and white high school yearbook picture of Marie Louise Clogher.

    Forging a Legal Path: Marie Malaro

    • Date: September 18, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Marie Malaro, 1933-2018, entered law in 1957 when few women were admitted to the bar, and then taught generations of museum professionals how law and ethics applied to their work every day.

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  15. Flyer with a sketch of a Kwanzaa table, a list of symbols, and a list of the seven principles.

    Celebrating Kwanzaa at the Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: December 5, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.

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  17. Link Love: 8/23/2019

    • Date: August 23, 2019
    • 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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  19. 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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  21. Link Love: 4/3/2020

    • Date: April 3, 2020
    • 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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  23. Rediscovering Historical Perspectives: A Newspaper Update on World War II

    • Date: November 11, 2014
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: In honor of Veteran's Day we talk a look at how a recently discovered newspaper illustrated how information was spread/kept secret during World War II.

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