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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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      An Institution Emerges

      • Date: February 16, 2017
      • Description: Joseph Henry - First Smithsonian Secretary, 1846-1878"A new impulse will thus be given to investigation in every department of science; and learned men will know that through you they will be able to make their discoveries available to their brethren throughout the civilized world." —Letter from Francis Wayland to Secretary Joseph Henry, December 19, 1848 Perhaps the country's

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    5. Happy National Chemistry Week!

      • Date: October 25, 2012
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: Here are some of the scientific discoveries made while conserving Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments Book I on electromagnetism.

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      Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

      • Date: April 26, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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      Par for the Course

      • Date: July 18, 2011
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: This post is the third in a series this month that honor the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925. We're highlighting a set of rare and newly digitized photographs from the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections, of witnesses at the trial, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. On Wednesday afternoon, July 15,

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        See Here: 9/28/2010

        • Date: September 28, 2010
        • Creator: The Bigger Picture
        • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Ray Dudley, assistant grounds foreman in the Office of Horticulture, gives some Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center pre-schoolers the word on the trees and plants in their playground, He also gave the kids some safety tips--including a warning not to eat holly berries, 1989, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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      • 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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        See Here: 4/27/2011

        • Date: April 27, 2011
        • Creator: The Bigger Picture
        • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="James Burford, Anthony Pineau, and Raymond Watson, On September 19, 1981, an ex-clerk with Smithsonian Museum shops, armed with a .25 caliber automatic pistol attempted to steal more than $2,500 from the National Museum of Natural History’s shop but was stopped by this trio, November 1981, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and

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      • Untitled, by James Fraser Paige, Nova Scotia Archives accession no. 1991-088.

        Link Love: 10/7/2011

        • Date: October 7, 2011
        • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
        • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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        Olga F. Linares

        • Date: February 27, 2020
        • Description: Olga F. Linares Smithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009624Olga Francesca Linares (1936 -2014) was an anthropologist with a thirty-five-year tenure at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI). Born in Panama, Linares moved to the United States to attend boarding school and then received a B.A. in anthropology from Vassar College in 1958 and a

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      • Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jacqueline Hicks Grazette

        • Date: June 24, 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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