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    1. Black and white image of man standing on boat with ocean in the background.

      Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?

      • Date: October 12, 2017
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    5. Diagram of Solomon Brown photograph housing showing construction process. Image by William Bennett.

      Home Sweet Housing: Creating a Unique Enclosure for a Historic Photograph

      • Date: November 24, 2015
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Finding a unique housing solution to preserve a historic photograph, detailing the history of one of the Smithsonian's earliest employees.

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    7. Kathy Boi, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Volunteer Appreciation: Kathy Boi

      • Date: April 14, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: We celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month by recognizing Kathy Boi, an oral history project volunteer.

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    9. A man points to a bent bolt attached to a metal support.

      The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

      • Date: August 19, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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    11. Atatürk Bust, San Posta, 23 Temmuz 1931, SALT Research, https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/14482745040/.

      You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A

      • Date: November 4, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and

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    13. True Colors

      • Date: November 21, 2017
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Contrasting black and white with color photography by Smithsonian Institution photographers.

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      Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 21, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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    17. Letter to Willem de Kooning from Joseph Hirshhorn, November 15, 1967. Record Unit 7449 - Joseph H. Hirshhorn Papers, circa 1926-1982 and undated. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      The Artist, The Collector, and Quality Correspondence in midst of the Digital Era

      • Date: August 19, 2014
      • Description: Archived correspondence between Joseph Hirshhorn and modern artists Willem de Kooning, Alexander Calder, and Marc Chagall bring light to the means in which we communicate artist to collector relationships in the digital era.

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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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      The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"

      • Date: July 14, 2011
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,

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    23. Videohistory interview at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1990.

      Born Digital - Video Recording in the 21st Century

      • Date: October 5, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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