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    1. How Many Objects does the Smithsonian Have?

      • Date: January 25, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12123,size=250,left]It is a simple answer really: We counted. From 1978 to 1983, the Smithsonian undertook a comprehensive inventory of its collections. It was the first time the Smithsonian had ever tried to count each object in its collections and it was a massive task. Over five years, staff from every museum and research center spent thousands of

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      To Market, To Market

      • Date: August 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="U.S. National Museum, Street vendors at Center Market, by unknown photographer, 10/16/1909, Smithsonian Institution Archives RU79 Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, SIA2009-1992."][/caption] Interns and staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are digitizing historic

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    5. Untitled c. 1905, RU7179_Box1_F21_Heller05 [SPI_1655].

      An Ode to the Bicycle

      • Date: May 8, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Time to dust off your velocipedes and bone-shakers! The League of American Bicyclists have declared May to be “National Bike Month” and have several events lined up to celebrate biking everywhere; Bike to Work Day (May 16), Bike to School Day (May 7), and Cyclofemme (May 11) .I love picking a theme or keyword and browsing through the Smithsonian’s collections.

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      See Here: 12/30/2009

      • Date: December 30, 2009
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Visit of Muhammad Ali to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, March 17, 1976, when he donated a pair of gloves and a robe to the museum for the "Nations of Nations" exhibition, 1976, Richard K. Hofmeister,

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    9. Office space with one man working at the second desk closest to the camera. Books are on the desks. There is collections storage on the right side.

      Archives Puzzles: Happy (Almost) National Bird Day

      • Date: January 4, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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      See Here: 12/3/2009

      • Date: December 3, 2009
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="426" caption="Rendering of the north front of the Museum of History and Technology (MHT), now the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), photographed from a colored drawing made by Elliot Glushak in 1961, 1961, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,

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      Smithsonian’s First Earth Day

      • Date: April 20, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: How did the Smithsonian take part in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970?

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      Archiving the Smithsonian’s presence on the Internet

      • Date: September 2, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      See Here: 1/5/2010

      • Date: January 5, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Three black-billed magpies in the National Zoological Park's Flight Cage, 1978, by Vichai Malikul, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1978, Negative number: 94-8329."][/caption]

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    19. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

      National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

      • Date: September 18, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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      “Do Pandas Affect Everyone This Way?”: Celebrating 50 Years of Giant Pandas at the National Zoo

      • Date: April 14, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This year marks the 50th anniversary since the arrival of giant pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoo. To celebrate, we’re highlighting some giant panda records at the Archives.

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      Fishes and Frogs and Birds, OH MY!

      • Date: May 26, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Cruriraja cadenati, 6 Oct 1959, Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, USNM 196443. "][/caption] The Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, just launched nearly 2 million records on the Smithsonian Collections Search Center related to their vertebrate

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