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    Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

    • Date: May 19, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: August 15, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

    • Date: May 9, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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    Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online

    • Date: September 8, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.

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    Arthur Wilson Stelfox: Another Gift from the United Kingdom

    • Date: July 23, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: With a large personal collection of specimens, Arthur Wilson Stelfox took steps to ensure his work will go on for decades to come.

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  11. Two floppy disks labeled with the ZooArk info. One is from the rhino files and the other is from the tiger files.

    Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating

    • Date: January 14, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.

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  13. Caribee stern, Schmitt on port side, 1959. Image SIA2018-109433.

    On Expedition with Waldo Schmitt

    • Date: July 31, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, some of Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitts field books are worth tens of thousands of words.

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  15. Photograph album page, black paper with five black and white photographs of plants and a spider specimen.

    Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

    • Date: October 11, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

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    Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

    • Date: November 27, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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    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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    Keeping up with our #Volunpeers – SIA’s Transcription Center Accomplishments

    • Date: September 14, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: When it comes to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, there’s always more to discover, more material with which to engage. It can be easy to lose track of just how much our crowd of #volunpeers accomplished and why it is so important to us. We’re not done yet, but after four years, it’s a good time to take a step back and see what has been accomplished through the effort of

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