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  1. Secretary Ripley stands beside the model and children climb around on top.

    The Dino Detours of Uncle Beazley

    • Date: June 8, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before Uncle Beazley, the popular life-size model of a triceratops, made its way to its final destination at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo, he stopped at a couple other destinations around the Institution.

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  3. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

    • Date: April 28, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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  5. Drawing of Spencer Fullerton Baird's Pet Dog

    Smithsonian Open Access-iversary

    • Date: February 25, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at CC0 content we have posted in the year since the Smithsonian Open Access launch!

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  7. Checking the contents of the boxes against the finding aid to ensure all materials are accounted for.

    Project SEARCH Comes to the Archives

    • Date: June 16, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: This spring, the Archives welcomed Heather Weiss, a Project SEARCH intern, and as her time with us comes to an end, we wanted to highlight her accomplishments.

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  9. #4 Empidideicus mariouti, Effl., 1945, Smithsonian Institution Ar SIA2012-7832.

    Audio, Video, and PDF's, Oh My!

    • Date: February 4, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives releases a new feature on their website which enables their finding aids to be marked up with available digitized media.

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  11. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  13. Portrait of Herman Henry Diebitsch

    Spotlight: Herman Henry Diebitsch and Josephine Diebitsch Peary

    • Date: June 24, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: We’re taking a closer look at Smithsonian clerk Herman Henry Diebitsch and his daughter, Arctic explorer Josephine Diebitsch Peary.

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  15. You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall

    • Date: May 23, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.

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  17. To Post-it or Not to Post-it

    • Date: September 5, 2013
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Although fun and easy to use, post-it notes are often harmful to archival records, as seen with the conservation of Cordelia Rose’s recently acquired scroll.

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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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    When Lucy Met Bill: A Smithsonian “Meet-Cute”

    • Date: February 13, 2020
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: He said, “Have a chocolate. They’re good for librarians.” I said, “I’m not a librarian. I’m an editor.”

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  23. Takin' Care of Records

    • Date: April 17, 2018
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at

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