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  1. Black and white image of man standing on boat with ocean in the background.

    Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?

    • Date: October 12, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific

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    Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

    • Date: August 16, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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  5. Photograph album page, black paper with five black and white photographs of plants and a spider specimen.

    Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

    • Date: October 11, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

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  7. Two floppy disks labeled with the ZooArk info. One is from the rhino files and the other is from the tiger files.

    Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating

    • Date: January 14, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.

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  9. A woman holds open a book in the reading room.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: August 15, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    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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    Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace

    • Date: September 19, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.

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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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  17. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  19. Clipping from EBONY September 1990 issue, page 92 featuring photographs of people at the Field to Factory exhibit installation in Anchorage, Alaska.

    The Women Behind the "Field to Factory" Exhibition

    • Date: October 6, 2022
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Current headlines about war and the impact of forced migration on women are stark reminders of historic migrations and how women adapted and took on new roles.In 1987, Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940 premiered at the National Museum of American History.

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