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  1. Museum specialist LaNelle Peterson with chameleon specimens at Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) Navy Yard laboratory.

    Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)

    • Date: February 10, 2022
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Learn more about the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center and the impact this unit had in the study of marine science worldwide.

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  3. Portrait of Thomas William Smillie

    Celebrating 120 Years of the Smithsonian’s Photographic History Collection

    • Date: July 14, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution has been collecting “specimens” related to the history of photography since photography was still considered a new technology? Learn about the evolution of our photography collection!

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  5. Conservators from Smithsonian Institution Libraries in the rare books conservation lab at North Capitol Street Services Center

    Sneak Peek 9/9/2019

    • Date: September 9, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Conservators from Smithsonian Institution Libraries in the rare books conservation lab at North Capitol Street Services Center, SIA RU000371, 79-14235-04A.

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  7. Storage Space at Museum Support Center (MSC)

    Sneak Peek 10/20/2014

    • Date: October 20, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Patent models and baskets occupy shelves in storage space at Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, Image Number: 2000-11186-06.

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  9. Research at SI Archives

    Sneak Peek 11/13/2017

    • Date: November 13, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Student in the "Program in Museum Study" offered by the Office of Academic Studies works with Associate Archivist William "Bill" Deiss in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, 73-314-07.

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  11. Joseph Henry statue, facing the National Mall, Neg. no. 96-1829.

    You Spin Me Right Round

    • Date: May 17, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: William Wetmore Story's statue of Smithsonian

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  13. Exterior View of Smithsonian Buildings

    Sneak Peek 4/20/2015

    • Date: April 20, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Exterior view of the National Air Museum, Smithsonian Institution Building, or Castle, and the Arts and Industries Building featuring Rocket Row, as seen from Independence Avenue, 77-2273.

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  15. Blog Post

    Sneak Peek: 6/15/2011

    • Date: June 15, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_13490" align="aligncenter" width="428" caption="Installation of the Jose de Rivera sculpture, "Infinity," in front of the Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: OPA-1020.16"][/caption]

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  17. Unlocking the Vault

    • Date: February 28, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives manages the cold storage vault at the National Museum of American History where approximately 3 million negatives are stored.

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  19. File cabinets filled with film in old cold storage space at NMAH. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Moving Day

    • Date: January 21, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: In November, Smithsonian Institution Archives moved over 3 million photographic negatives to a new state of the art facility at the Smithsonian Institution Support Center (SISC) in Hyattsville, Maryland.

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  21. Blog Post

    Biodiversity Illustrated

    • Date: June 30, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: While the Smithsonian Institution is perhaps better known for its museums that pepper the landscape of the National Mall in Washington DC, its devotion to scientific research easily matches its dedication to collecting, preserving, and displaying artifacts of cultural and historical importance. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) started off as a small field

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  23. Aerial View of Barro Colorado Island

    Sneak Peek 3/23/2015

    • Date: March 23, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Aerial view of Barro Colorado Island (BCI), location of a research center for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), 86-10911.

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