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  1. Page from a coloring activitity of rooms in the Smithsonian Castle. This one is of the library.

    Distance Learning Activities and Tips from the Archives

    • Date: April 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Whether you have a little downtime or you wish you remembered what downtime was like, the Archives is here for you with a few distance learning activities and organization tips.

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  3. Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

    Sneak Peek 4/6/2020

    • Date: April 6, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, USNM No. 13751.

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  5. Ursula Marvin lies on her stomach to look into ice. A colleague kneels next to her, taking notes.

    100 Women in Science in Smithsonian History

    • Date: January 6, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Geologist Dr. Ursula Marvin studied Moon rocks from the Apollo missions and meteorites in Antarctica. Throughout her career with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Marvin championed women in science. She delivered lectures about her own experiences as a woman in geology and participated in programing to help advance women's careers. She was likely inspired to support

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  7. 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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    Bringing out the Animal in Art

    • Date: December 22, 2015
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: On National Visit the Zoo Day, a look at a unique exhibition at the National Zoological Park, the National Museum of Natural History, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: “Animal In Art,” an exhibit and series of “sketch-ins,” part of an international campaign for the World Wildlife Fund.

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    New Field Book Images on Flickr Commons

    • Date: December 6, 2012
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Check out our latest set of images from our Field Book Project on the Flickr Commons.

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  13. Hearing The World Is Yours

    • Date: May 14, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from an episode of The World Is Yours.

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  15. Visitors head into the Arts and Industries Building,

    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Murder at the Museum

    • Date: January 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On January 16, 1907, a man carrying packages asked a carpenter for directions to a former colleague's office in the U.S. National Museum. Minutes later, that man pulled a rifle out of one of the packages and murdered an illustrator working for the Smithsonian.

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  17. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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  19. Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums

    • Date: July 1, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.

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  21. Close-up of a photograph of a snowflake with six points.

    Crafting the Archives Way!

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.

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  23. Sneak Peek 3/25/2019

    • Date: March 25, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: "Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America" seminar with Wilton S. Dillon, Dr. Margaret Mead, and Lucille Dawson, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA Acc. 11-009, 76-7580-17.

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