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  1. A construction drawing that includes the exact dimensions of a piece of art in front of the National Air and Space Museum. It is tall and thin.

    Adventures in Adopt-a-Book

    • Date: April 21, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Hear from Archives staff about some of the items up for “adoption” at the 2022 Adopt-a-Book salons and what makes them so special.

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  3. A Weddell seal in the ice hole at Station 61B (August 16, 1961). Note the metal casing which lines the hole and the canvas cover used to close off the area between the floor of the shack and the top of the casing. Photograph by Jack L. Littlepage. Accession 15-281: John H. Dearborn Papers, 1950-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-008032.

    Antarctic Explorations: The Diary of John H. Dearborn

    • Date: July 30, 2015
    • Description: With the recent acquisition of the papers of scientist John H. Dearborn, here is an introduction to his life and research at the edge of the world.

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  5. Spirit Photograph, Harry Houdini with Ghost of Abraham Lincoln, by Harry Houdini, via Wikimedia Commons, Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

    Panoramic Panic Part III

    • Date: October 30, 2014
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Our conservator shares some scary and not-so-scary advice on dealing with rolled panoramic photographs.

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    Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment

    • Date: May 3, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.

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  9. Short GIF of zooming in on an otter image, next to a painting of a man.

    Some more IIIF-y Collections

    • Date: May 30, 2019
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives begins to further implement the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

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  11. Mercedes Arroyo looks directly into the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mercedes Arroyo

    • Date: July 8, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    What’s in a Word?

    • Date: November 20, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: How can you help the Smithsonian uncover new information about its collections? Try your hand transcribing documents, diaries, and field books at the new Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  15. An 8 inch floppy disk.

    How Computers Took Off at the National Air and Space Museum: 1980-1981

    • Date: December 1, 2016
    • Description: A look at a survey of computer usage at the National Air and Space Museum in 1980.

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    Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

    • Date: November 22, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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    Broadcasting Live from the Sun...

    • Date: November 22, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A look at fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian, Charles Greeley Abbot's work into solar energy.

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  21. Press Preview invitation for the exhibition,

    Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice

    • Date: May 14, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."

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  23. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

    • Date: June 18, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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