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  1. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

    • Date: August 20, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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  3. Suggestion submitted by W. G. Homer, Chief of the Cabinet Shop, to the Efficiency Awards Committee, dated September 20, 1951. Record Unit 50: Office of the Secretary, records, 1949-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Awarding Excellence

    • Date: April 9, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Another Miscellaneous Adventures explores the work of Smithsonian employees and the quest for their work to be awarded.

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  5. B&W photoshopped image of creators heads on figures wearing graduation gowns and hats

    Link Love: 12/22/2017

    • Date: December 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The 2018 public domain graduates, including Aleister Crowley, René Magritte, Alice B. Toklas, Pierre Bonnard, and Winston Churchill! [via Public Domain Review]The history of dealing with lack of light in Scandanavia, and Happy Solstice! [via Mosaic Science]Aww, baby pictures of the internet from 1973! [via Open Culture]Close-ups of Jupiter from NASA look like impressionist

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    Link Love: 4/29/2011

    • Date: April 29, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Portrait of Albert Einstein and Others (1879-1955), 1931, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Accession number: SIL14-E1-10."][/caption] An interesting article on the complicated permutations of copyright law and images of publicity-savvy Albert Einstein. Our thoughts are with those dealing

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    Digitized Photos and Back Stories

    • Date: October 22, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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  11. Color scan of a 19th snetury filed notebook opened, showing handwritten notes and a black insect specimen laying on top of the pages.j

    A Taste For Adventure

    • Date: May 3, 2018
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, Tony Cohn, host of Smithsonian’s Sidedoor podcast, contacted the Archives about an upcoming episode they were preparing. Sidedoor highlights the unseen or little-known stories about collections at the Smithsonian. The Archives’ work was recently front-and-center of an episode of The Sidedoor Podcast about America’s first food spy.

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  13. What’s not to love about slideshows?

    • Date: February 10, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  15. Color photograph of a handheld field notebook opened, and displaying a sketch of a rural landscape.

    Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back

    • Date: May 15, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be

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    See Here: 10/25/2010

    • Date: October 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="334" caption="Paul Rhymer, Exhibits Specialist in Taxidermy at Exhibits Central, shows off the radio-controlled badger he created for Brian Miller, a post-doctoral fellow working at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, VA, The "robo-badger" had been found as road-kill and mailed to Rhymer frozen,

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    A Ghost in the Archives: Robert Kennicott

    • Date: October 27, 2016
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: A spooky coincidence leads to a forgotten Robert Kennicott document in the Smithsonian Archives.

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  21. Benjamin the Anti-Christ's Doomsday Prophecy

    • Date: December 21, 2012
    • Description: In 1866, Benjamin the Anti Christ predicted earthquakes, war, and brain paralysis for the world—a prophecy that reached the SI Archives.

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  23. Link Love: 2/1/2019

    • Date: February 1, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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