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  1. 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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    Hot Topics in Archival Research: Summer 2017

    • Date: July 6, 2017
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: What does the Smithsonian Institution Archives collect? We say we hold records about the history of the Smithsonian and its people, programs, research, and activities. But this answer doesn’t quite do justice to the breadth and depth of our holdings.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you'll get into

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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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    See Here: 4/14/2011

    • Date: April 14, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="283" caption="Captain Harold W. Hancock stands on the Natural History steps dressed in his Smithsonian Security Officer Force uniform, He celebrated his eighth year as captain of Natural History’s Office of Protection Services, Company A in 1992, Richard Strauss, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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  9. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2018

    • Date: December 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this fall by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  11. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

    Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

    • Date: August 2, 2018
    • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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  13. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

    • Date: December 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  15. Revisiting the Magnificent Enterprise

    • Date: March 20, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to revisit an important and inspiring exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 1961. “The Magnificient Enterprise: Education Opens the Door” was a photographic exhibition based on the 100 years of higher education for women. Sponsored by Vassar College in observance of its

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  17. An L-shaped stacked stone and mortar house with a slate roof and white-painted sash windows sits amidst a grassy expanse. A lichen-covered stacked stone wall separates the front garden from pastureland.

    Walking in the Footsteps of Hungerfords

    • Date: September 15, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract dividing a lucrative land inheritance between the mother and aunt of the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson. Over the last three years I have been able to take a deep dive into the content of the Deed and strengthen our understanding of Smithson’s choice to leave his

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  19. Four people, two men and two women, stand in an exhibit gallery.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sarah Grusin

    • Date: April 6, 2022
    • 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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    See Here: 12/6/2010

    • Date: December 6, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="378" caption="Image of a wall case displaying specimens from the Copper Queen Mine in Bisbee, Arizona, The case, part of the Exhibits Modernization Program, is located in the Hall of Gems and Minerals in the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, 1958, by Unidentified photographer,

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    See Here: 3/9/2010

    • Date: March 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="411" caption="Visitors viewing "Transparent Woman" at the opening of the Hall of Health. This display was part of the Exhibits Modernization Program and was located in the Arts and Industries Building. Assistant Secretary A. Remington Kellogg is the second from the right. Using electronics, sound, and light, the figure of a woman

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