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    What Smithsonian Animals Think of National Hug Day

    • Date: January 21, 2014
    • Description: Today is National Hug day! If you are feeling a little hug deprived don’t worry, we have scoured our collections to find you the best image of animals embracing the day.

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  3. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

    Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

    • Date: January 19, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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  5. Collection of black and white negative contact sheet of images from the celebration of the	Hillwood donation.

    Toasting to the Museum that Never Was

    • Date: January 14, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: A brief look at the Smithsonian’s almost acquisition of Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate

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  7. Opening remarks from Bill Tompkins, National Collections Coordinator at SI.

    2011 Archives Fair Webcast Live Now

    • Date: October 14, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Valentine’s Day: Love is Blooming

    • Date: February 14, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Need a date idea for Valentine’s Day? Let the Smithsonian help you out with a tour of its Enid Haupt Garden.

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  11. Visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance.

    Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in the 21st Century

    • Date: November 18, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: The Arts and Industries Buildings reopens this weekend with FUTURES, the first building-wide exploration of the future on the National Mall. Though we've written plenty about the building's past on our blog, today, we're diving into its more recent history in the 21st century.

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    Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

    • Date: May 9, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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  15. Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying

    • Date: August 2, 2012
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.

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  17. A woman wearing gloves holds up a pair of boots. A man in the background is near a shelf of objects.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jennifer Locke Jones

    • Date: April 1, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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  21. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

    Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

    • Date: October 28, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  23. Link Love: 07/17/2020

    • Date: July 17, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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