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    The Quest for Walcott's Quarry

    • Date: September 15, 2009
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2239" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="881. View of the cliff of Mount Burgess from the west slope of Mount Field, three (3) miles north of Field on the Canadian Pacific Railway (British Columbia, Canada). By C.D. Walcott, 1910. 4 x 5" kodak film. Digital image taken directly from nitrate negative.

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  3. Serpents, Slugs and Science: The Interesting Career of Paul Bartsch

    • Date: August 9, 2012
    • Description: Learn about Smithsonian zoologist Paul Bartsch, whose love of mollusks and science was not just a career but a way of life.

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  5. Stereoview showing a piece of mummy cartonnage (wrappings) painted with hieroglyphics, from Saqqara, Egypt, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018

    • Date: September 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this summer 2018 by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  7. View of a snow-topped mountain. At the center of the photographs is a tree with trimmed branches and no leaves.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021

    • Date: April 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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  9. Yak with long fur stands in the snow. It is facing the camera.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021

    • Date: October 12, 2021
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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  11. Is that you, John Quincy Adams?

    • Date: February 20, 2012
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.

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  13. Dog Days at the Zoo, Part I

    • Date: September 11, 2012
    • Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.

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  15. Challenges of Appraising Records in the Digital Age

    • Date: October 12, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: With the proliferation of records maintained electronically, appraisal has become more challenging and time-consuming.

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  17. A man and woman stands outdoors in a rocky area. Both are holding the golf clubs and the woman is preparing to take a swing.

    Margaret Sordahl, Collecting Flora and Fauna at a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Station

    • Date: December 2, 2021
    • Description: We’re taking a glimpse into the work and life of Margaret Sordahl and other women at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory stations around the world.

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  19. Recognizing the Smithsonian Staff Who Served in the Gulf War

    • Date: November 10, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This Veterans Day, we salute the 21 men and women at the Smithsonian who served in the Gulf War.

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  21. Staff from the Archives Nationales d'Haiti and the CSBC.

    Archives Conservation in Haiti, Part 1

    • Date: December 13, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: This is the first of two posts on the Archives' conservators’ work with the Smithsonian’s Haiti Cultural Recovery project, which works to rescue and safeguard objects damaged by the 2010 earthquake.

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    Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

    • Date: March 24, 2016
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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