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  1. A construction drawing that includes the exact dimensions of a piece of art in front of the National Air and Space Museum. It is tall and thin.

    Adventures in Adopt-a-Book

    • Date: April 21, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Hear from Archives staff about some of the items up for “adoption” at the 2022 Adopt-a-Book salons and what makes them so special.

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  3. Happy National Chemistry Week!

    • Date: October 25, 2012
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Here are some of the scientific discoveries made while conserving Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments Book I on electromagnetism.

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    Link Love: 4/20/2018

    • Date: April 20, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: When Mickey Mouse was used in war propaganda. [via National Museum of American History]NASA is on the search for new planets. [via BBC]The Initiative for Open Citations is attempting to make an open repository of citations. [via Boing Boing]Benjamin Franklin's papers are now online at Library of Congress. [via LOC blog]Service training for DC police officers — a visit to the

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    The Smithsonian: Recycling Since 1862

    • Date: April 22, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Ask the Smithsonian, Third Time’s the Charm

    • Date: October 11, 2012
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Experts from the Smithsonian Institution invite visitors to see how to and care for their own archival collections and treasures.

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  11. See Mrs. D. D. Gaillard or Katherine Ross Davis Gaillard in the bottom right corner of this page.

    Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Between the Lines with the Smithsonian Transcription Center Volunteers

    • Date: February 24, 2015
    • Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.

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    Collections in Context

    • Date: March 22, 2010
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12311,size=250,right]Walking into the rotunda of the National Museum of Natural History one immediately comes face to face with the Fénykövi Elephant (also affectionately known as Henry). Taken at a glance, the African elephant is impressive and imposing, standing over guests to a tune of 13 feet and 2 inches when measured at the shoulder. The Fénykövi

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    Photography's Colorful Past

    • Date: January 14, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4168" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Albumen portrait of the Reverend Levi L. Hill, Baptist minister and early daguerreotypist, West Kill, New York and New York City, b. 1816-d. February 9, 1865. Inscription on reverse, “Levi L. Hill, Died February 9, 1865, He is Asleep in Heaven.”"][/caption] Just when we think that we must have at last

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  17. Kira Sobers works on an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. It has two tape wheels and many buttons.

    What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization

    • Date: May 19, 2020
    • Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.

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    Civil War Reconnaissance Takes Flight

    • Date: June 18, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

    • Date: October 9, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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  23. Public Law 98-87—August 26, 1983, appointing Jeannine Smith Clark to the Smithsonian Board of Regents, by United States Congress, document, United States Government Printing Office.

    Jeannine Smith Clark and the Increase and Diffusion of Cultural Education

    • Date: February 23, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of volunteer Jeannine Smith Clark to the Smithsonian.

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