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  1. Color painting of a gardener by Vincent Van Gogh.

    Link Love: 9/28/2018

    • Date: September 28, 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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  3. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

    Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

    • Date: October 28, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    Calling all Flashlights!

    • Date: September 22, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2093" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="R•I•T Big Shot No. 1, HIGHLAND HOSPITAL, Rochester, New York USA, produced by The Highland Hospital, The RIT Biomedical Photographic Communications Dept., Other Students, Faculty & Friends of RIT Photography, December 4, 1987."][/caption] In December of 1987, professors William DuBois and Michael Peres of

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  7. Tweets between @Smithsonian and @PennamitePLR

    Audiences Solving Mysteries of Women in Science

    • Date: December 3, 2013
    • Description: Recent discoveries about our Women in Science demonstrate the ways our audiences are helping us add more stories to our collections.

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  9. Lisa Fthenakis, Program Assistant, Institution History Division, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: July 16, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Continuing our series on introducing new staff, I'd like to welcome our new Program Assistant for our Institution History Division, Lisa Fthenakis.

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  11. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janet W. Solinger

    • Date: October 31, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Janet W. Solinger, Director of the Smithsonian Resident Associates Program, 1972-1992, helped expand the Smithsonian's continuing education program membership tenfold. In 1993, she served as Director of Special Projects, assisting with planning for the Smithsonian's 150th anniversary. #Groundbreaker

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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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    Photos Can Turn Down the Heat

    • Date: October 20, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Natural Gas Fracing, by Melissa Peffs."][/caption] Photography is valued for, among other things, seeing what the human eye cannot. From medical scans to red light cameras to artworks made by image makers offering up new perspectives, photography reminds us that there’s always more to observe than we’re physically able to

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    Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 19, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12022,size=250,left]Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since its earliest years. The Institution has always been “dependent on the kindness of strangers.” Volunteers make tremendous contributions to Smithsonian operations every day in virtually every corner of the globe. The Smithsonian's paid staff of some 6,000 employees is

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  19. Title Page of the Catalogue of the Library of the National Institute of the Promotion of Science.

    The Fate of the National Institute

    • Date: July 27, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that before the Smithsonian existed, there were two other institutions created for the promotion of science and diffusion of knowledge? Exploring the fate of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

    • Date: December 6, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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  23. Field Work and a World War

    • Date: July 12, 2012
    • Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.

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