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  1. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Science Service: Up Close

    • Date: May 19, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    Link Love: 8/19/2011

    • Date: August 19, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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  5. Color photo of Dr. Donald F. Squires, sitting in the Oyster Cove Restaurant.

    Dr. Donald Fleming Squires (1927-2017)

    • Date: February 13, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14492,size=500,center]Dr. Squires was a pioneer in the application of computer technology in science museums and the founding father of data processing at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). He died on his 90th birthday, December 19, 2017 in Tasmania, Australia, after a short illness. Squires received an B.A. from Cornell

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    Here at the Smithsonian: Black Pride at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: February 23, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: To celebrate Black History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring exhibitions from the Anacostia Community Museum in the 1980s.

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  9. A tweet from Hettie Ashwin mentioning her writing.

    Get Inspired: Using Smithsonian Images for Creative Writing

    • Date: January 17, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A highlight of a series of creative writings inspired by photographs from the Smithsonian Flickr Commons and published at the online journal, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure.

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  11. A young woman with long dark hair smiles toward the camera. She is wearing a button-down collared shirt with a flower print on it.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Carla M. Borden

    • Date: June 29, 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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  13. Field Book Project Digital Imaging Technician Charles Zange.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: March 9, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: An introduction to the newest Field Book Project Digital Imaging Technicians.

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  15. Making Plaster Mold of Body of Sulphur-Bottom Whale, 1903, lantern slide.

    A Whale of a Tale

    • Date: November 13, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.

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  17. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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  19. Staff and invited guests filled the historic Arts and Industries Building for the installation of Dr. David Skorton as 13th Secretary, Oct. 19, 2015. (Photo By Joyce Boghosian)

    Link Love: 10/23/2015

    • Date: October 23, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  21. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

    The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

    • Date: June 8, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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  23. Photograph of Manning holding up an award in the shape of a round dish.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine Lemmon Manning

    • Date: June 2, 2021
    • 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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