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  1. 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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  3. Taking a sample of mold.

    Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

    • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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  5. Three men test out new computer equipment. They are all wearing suits.

    Volunteer Spotlight: John Churchman

    • Date: April 22, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize John Churchman, a research associate who has been documenting the history of computing at the Smithsonian.

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  7. Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley

    Sneak Peek 5/6/2019

    • Date: May 6, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Tree O'Donnell and Mike Friello of Office of Exhibits Central provide a fiberglass and pigmented polyester resin facial to Uncle Beazley, a 22-foot long replica of a dinosaur triceratops, 81-6787-23A.

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  9. Visitors head into the Arts and Industries Building,

    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Murder at the Museum

    • Date: January 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On January 16, 1907, a man carrying packages asked a carpenter for directions to a former colleague's office in the U.S. National Museum. Minutes later, that man pulled a rifle out of one of the packages and murdered an illustrator working for the Smithsonian.

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    The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian

    • Date: March 27, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

    • Date: June 12, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

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  15. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  17. Crimilda Pontes: The Original Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst

    • Date: March 24, 2020
    • Description: A celebration of the woman who originally designed the iconic Smithsonian sunburst.

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  19. Staff from the Archives Nationales d'Haiti and the CSBC.

    Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 1

    • Date: December 13, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: This is the first of two posts on the Archives' conservators’ work with the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery project, which works to rescue and safeguard objects damaged by the 2010 earthquake.

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  21. A woman poses with an open book on a shelf. A sign behind her reads: Anthropology for Teachers Program.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ruth O. Selig

    • Date: February 12, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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    See Here: 1/10/2011

    • Date: January 10, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="A Junior League docent explains exhibits in The Hall of Gems and Minerals, National Museum of Natural History, to visiting school children, 1950s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 44, Negative Number: MNH 142-A."][/caption]

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