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  1. Fire at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, February 7, 2011.

    Hold your fire! Fire prevention in archives, museums, and libraries

    • Date: February 7, 2012
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Discussion of fires and fire prevention in museums, libraries, and archives, with resources.

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    Collections in Context

    • Date: March 22, 2010
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=250,right]Walking into the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History one immediately comes face to face with the Fénykövi Elephant (also affectionately known as Henry). Taken at a glance, the African elephant is impressive and imposing, standing over guests to a tune of 13 feet and 2 inches when measured at the shoulder. The Fénykövi

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Gwyneira Isaac

    • Date: October 21, 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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    Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

    • Date: October 9, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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  9. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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    Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”

    • Date: September 1, 2020
    • Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.

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  13. Hall of Photography, National Museum of History and Technology, 1973, Negative n

    Hall of Photography

    • Date: February 16, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Neil Allen worked on audiovisual elements in the Hall of Photography which opened at the National Museum of History and Technology in 1973.

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  15. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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    See Here: 5/20/2010

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Women employees in the Telephone and Telegraph Office which was located in the North Tower of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, from the time the building was opened in 1881, Through the window is the Syrian Sarcophagus brought to the United States in 1837 and intended for Andrew

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    Smithsonian's Photo Summit

    • Date: October 12, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.

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    See Here: 3/24/2011

    • Date: March 24, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="National Museum of Natural History physical anthropologists Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997) hold a seventeen and one half foot long beard found in a North Dakota attic, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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  23. Owney the Railway Mail Dog’s Facebook Info Page on March 2, 2011.

    The Smithsonian: Using and Archiving Facebook

    • Date: May 31, 2011
    • 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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