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  1. Cyanotype, disassembled mannequins in Post Office Department exhibit at Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, 1895, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12659.

    Sneak Peek 10/28/2019

    • Date: October 28, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cyanotype, disassembled mannequins in Post Office Department exhibit at Cotton States Exposition, Atlanta, 1895, SIA RU000095, USNM No. 12659.

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  3. Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

    Sneak Peek 4/6/2020

    • Date: April 6, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, USNM No. 13751.

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    From Wright Memorial to Museum for the Space Age

    • Date: November 2, 2017
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14760,size=200,left] On July 1, 2016, the current National Air and Space Museum (NASM) building, covered with a Tenessee pink marble façade and recessed glass bays, celebrated its 40th anniversary. For this, NASM reopened its central exhibition, the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, and hosted various events including greetings from Mars and from

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  7. 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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  9. Remembering the Reopening of Two Smithsonian Museums

    • Date: July 1, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: After extensive renovations of the Old Patent Office Building that houses the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture held a grand opening July 1, 2006.

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  11. Sneak Peek 3/25/2019

    • Date: March 25, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: "Kin and Communities: The Peopling of America" seminar with Wilton S. Dillon, Dr. Margaret Mead, and Lucille Dawson, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA Acc. 11-009, 76-7580-17.

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    See Here: 3/23/2018

    • Date: March 23, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: "See Here: a weekly photo feature showcasing images from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Archives."

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  15. 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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  17. If Wilbur Wright was to compose his letter to the Smithsonian Institution.

    You’ve Still Got Mail

    • Date: April 19, 2011
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. Aerial photograph of the National Mall with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt covering the four blocks west of the U.S. Capitol Building.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022

    • Date: November 3, 2022
    • 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 thousands of questions per year.

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  23. 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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