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  1. 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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    See Here: 7/7/2010

    • Date: July 7, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities, 1934, by E. Hardy, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record,

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  5. Stamp depicting S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Fosberg

    • Date: November 17, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into Raymond Fosberg’s research on the flora of Sri Lanka.

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  7. Large book resting on a table. It is open to a page.

    Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives

    • Date: July 2, 2019
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.

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    See Here: 9/27/2010

    • Date: September 27, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="259" caption="James Buckler, Michele Sensourinh and Gail Ufford of the Office of Horticulture, counting pennies thrown into the Arts and Industries Foley Fountain, 1976, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder October 1976, Negative Number: 94-13204."][/caption]

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  11. A cat and her kittens.

    Staff Check-In: Befriending Kittens, Carving Ducks, and Perfecting the Art of the Biscuit

    • Date: July 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Nearly four months into Smithsonian’s extended telework period, we thought it would be fun to share which skills and hobbies have been getting us through this overwhelming time.

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  13. How Many Birds Have You Seen Today?

    • Date: January 5, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Christmas Bird Count was begun in 1900 by the Audubon Society. Many Smithsonian staff have participated in it in the decades since then.

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  15. Goody Goody Gumdrops

    • Date: September 25, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A history of pygmy hippopotamus naming conventions at the National Zoological Park.

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    19th-Century Marine Life’s Role in the 21st Century

    • Date: January 25, 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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    Link Love: 9/14/2018

    • Date: September 14, 2018
    • 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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    Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own

    • Date: July 1, 2010
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:

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  23. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

    Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

    • Date: March 30, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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