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  1. Dick Benson, March 1975, by Kjell Sandved

    Sandved and his Snapshots

    • Date: April 4, 2013
    • Description: Kjell Bloch Sandved worked as a photographer for the National Musuem of Natural History for 32 years and his Photographic Files captured the Museum’s staff at work in 1975.

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    Link Love: 10/21/2011

    • Date: October 21, 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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    The Smithsonian and Latin America

    • Date: February 15, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9988,size=500,center]While many people view the Smithsonian as a complex of museums in Washington, DC, it began as and still is an international organization devoted to research and education. A look at the Smithsonian Global website reveals where Smithsonian staff can be found today.Since the Smithsonian’s founding in 1846, the Institution has

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  7. Portrait of Darling. He is wearing a suit and tie and thick, round glasses.

    “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

    • Date: May 7, 2020
    • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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  9. A man sits at a desk on which large bones sit. An animal skeleton is hanging on the wall.

    The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 6, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

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    An Intern’s Guide on How to Digitize a Field Book

    • Date: August 14, 2018
    • Description: What is a field book and how do you digitize one? These were the first two questions I asked when I came on board at the Archives as the Summer 2018 Field Book Project Digitization Intern. During the course of my internship, I discovered the answer to both questions and learned a lot about digitization practices and standards at the Smithsonian.According to the Biodiversity

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    Digitized Photos and Back Stories

    • Date: October 22, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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    Author! Author!

    • Date: June 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Back in December, I wrote a post about Emory University’s efforts to make the writer Salman Rushdie’s digital files available to fans, researchers, and interested parties. A couple of days ago, I came across an interesting report about a gathering, an “unconference,” that was sponsored by the University of Virginia’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, which

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    See Here: 12/21/2010

    • Date: December 21, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Unveiling of the model for the exhibition "The Federal City: Plans and Realities" in the Office of Exhibits Central workshop, 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder: March 1976, Negative Number: 76-2525-18."][/caption]

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    See Here: 7/20/2010

    • Date: July 20, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Birds of the World Hall, 1956, by Unidentified photographer, Unidentified medium, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 190, United States National Museum, Office of the Director, Records, circa 1921-1973, Series 21, Box 89, Negative Number: mnh-43843b.jpg."][/caption]

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  21.  Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

    Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner

    • Date: November 12, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.

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  23. Elmo and Fozzie Bear wait in the conservation lab before their debut at the donation ceremony. Courtesy of the National Museum of American History.

    Link Love: 9/27/2013

    • Date: September 27, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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