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    Let’s Talk Turkey

    • Date: November 21, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Birds of a feather flock together, especially if they are a pair of patriotic turkeys who took up residency at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

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  3. Kensington stone, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s - , Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 38110a.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: June 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  5. Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collections, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-4347.

    Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist

    • Date: January 14, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.

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  7. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

    Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

    • Date: March 30, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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  9. Snake River Float Trip, by EJS, Prior to 1970.

    Wish you (or your image) were here

    • Date: August 7, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 5/4/2011

    • Date: May 5, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Lafayette Park seen from the Old Executive Office Building, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1943."][/caption]

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  13. Some Creepy Crawly Recipes in Time for Halloween

    • Date: October 30, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Just in time for Halloween, more insect recipes found in the Archives.

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  15. Example of the previous Archives Site Search results page.

    You Asked, We Listened: Introducing the Archives New Site Search

    • Date: September 23, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: The Smithsonian Archives is pleased to present it’s new site search functionality.

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    Digital Video Preservation: Further Challenges for Preserving Digital Video and Beyond

    • Date: August 16, 2011
    • Description: As one can expect, the complexity of digital video provides a few more factors to track and assess when compared with analog moving image counterparts in the archive.

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    A Recipe: Elephant Hide and Ivory

    • Date: April 21, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    The Smithsonian's 165th Anniversary

    • Date: August 10, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Exactly 165 years ago today, legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution was passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President James K. Polk. From today’s perspective, it seems like a “no-brainer” to accept a generous bequest from a little-known Englishman named James Smithson and create an institution in his name. But from the perspective of that era, the

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    The Star Spangled Banner, an American Icon

    • Date: July 4, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Happy Fourth of July! On Independence Day, flags are flown across the nation. The Smithsonian has many versions of the American flag in its collections, the best known being the Star Spangled Banner. But, do you know its history, and how it came to the Smithsonian? The Star Spangled Banner is a huge 15-star, 15-stripe garrison flag, 30 feet by 42 feet, made in 1813 by Mary

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