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  1. The End of the Beginning: A Born Digital Survey at the Smithsonian Institution

    • Date: April 30, 2013
    • Description: The CCPF’s Born Digital Survey wrapped up Phase I earlier this Spring, and has compiled the findings to paint a better picture of what rich resources remain unavailable in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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  3. Color photo of Dr. Donald F. Squires, sitting in the Oyster Cove Restaurant.

    Dr. Donald Fleming Squires (1927-2017)

    • Date: February 13, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14492,size=500,center]Dr. Squires was a pioneer in the application of computer technology in science museums and the founding father of data processing at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He died on his 90th birthday, December 19, 2017 in Tasmania, Australia, after a short illness. Squires received an B.A. from Cornell

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  5. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

    • Date: December 4, 2012
    • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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  7. Bird head drawing by Robert Ridgway, Record Unit 7167 - Robert Ridgway Papers, circa 1850s-1919, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-00594b.

    Mystery Diagnosis and the Case of the Unidentified Bird Shadows

    • Date: February 4, 2014
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: We need your help idenitifying what happened to these Ridgway bird illustrations that appear to have strange smoke patterns covering the images

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  9. War Correspondents

    • Date: July 26, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Discusses the opening of an exhibit When Time and Duty Permit: Smithsonian Collecting in World War II and the correspondence files that will be displayed.

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  11. 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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  13. Screenshot of the Vaccines and US archived website that shows a banner noting it was archived August 5, 2021.

    Another Year of Collecting Online History

    • Date: March 31, 2022
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Changing museum hours and new websites meant another busy year for Smithsonian website archiving.

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  15. Paul E. Garber with Model under Spirit of St. Louis, National Air and Space Museum, neg. no. NASM--9A06513.

    Spirit of St. Louis Was Star Attraction for Smithsonian

    • Date: April 30, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: April 30 marks the anniversary of when Charles Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to the Smithsonian Institution to donate.

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  17. Sophie G. Lutterlough c. 2008, photographer unknown, www.tributes.com.

    “It Won’t Be Easy to Leave after 40 Years”: Sophie Lutterlough’s Career at the National Museum of Natural History

    • Date: February 16, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Sophie Lutterlough to the National Museum of Natural History.

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  19. An aerial view from the southwest of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1993.

    Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals

    • Date: July 18, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.

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    The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman

    • Date: December 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.

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  23. Kensington stone, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 38110a.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: June 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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