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      Science Service, Up Close: Before DNA Made Them Famous - Crick, Wilkins, and Watson

      • Date: February 27, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_391843,size=300,center]By the 1960s, Science Service had been acquiring photographs of scientists, obscure as well as famous, for over four decades. Portraits of Edison or Einstein were always in demand, but experience had also shown that bright, accomplished young people might someday be awarded a major prize or make a discovery deemed

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      Women's History Month on the Flickr Commons: A Final Batch

      • Date: March 23, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: We've just added a final batch of photographs to our "Science Service" set on the Flickr Commons in honor of Women's History Month, and there are some interesting new ladies there. You might assume that since the images are from Science Service, they would only feature scientists. However, Science Service, a news service designed to popularize science and to disseminate

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      Link Love: 12/14/2018

      • Date: December 14, 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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      Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers

      • Date: July 28, 2011
      • Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of

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    9. Facing Adverse Conditions While Collecting in the Field

      • Date: July 31, 2012
      • Description: David Crockett Graham's field books depict how he faced many adverse conditions while collecting specimens in China.

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      Welcome to the World Wide Web, Ladies

      • Date: August 15, 2013
      • Description: Intern Rachel Alexander muses on why notable women in science are forgotten and how to reinstate their legacy through Wikipedia.

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      Enduring Mysteries of the Hungerford Deed

      • Date: December 3, 2020
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Much has been learned and uncovered about the Hungerford Deed—but what is still out there to learn? Dig in with us to explore a few of these unanswered questions!

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    15. A printed map, marked with red and brown inks, is unfolded showing the entirety of its information. A photographic target is at left.

      Navigating Treatment of the Dawson Map

      • Date: May 7, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Our treasures can pose significant—and often unexpected—challenges, like when a map has been attached to a hotel linen. See how our staff tackled a complex intervention in progress!

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      Happy Halloween

      • Date: October 20, 2010
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: While reading through all of the great stories about archives this month, I came to the conclusion that archives serve as inspiration for a variety of things—research, papers, and yes, even Halloween costumes. Though we have been focusing many of our blog posts on archival issues for Archives Month this October, I have decided to open up the collections to help out anyone who

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      Link Love: 11/19/2010

      • Date: November 19, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Ever heard of The Impossible Project? When Polaroid announced they would stop production of instant film, these folks saved the last Polaroid production plant in the Netherlands, and started to develop new instant film with a small team of former Polaroid employees. Check out some shots of Smithsonian museums taken by Aaron Dunn and created with the fruits of their labor. What

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    21. An example of a Ryan Gosling Hey Girl museum post.

      Link Love: 12/30/2012

      • Date: December 30, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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    23. Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Front Royal, Virginia, National Zoological Park.

      Where Have All the White Tigers Gone?

      • Date: August 13, 2015
      • Description: A brief history of white tigers at the National Zoological Park, and an explanation of why they are no longer collected.

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