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    See Here: 1/11/2010

    • Date: January 11, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="382" caption="Samuel P. Langley, 1834-1906, third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1887-1906), observing birds in flight from the roof of the Arts and Industries Building, c. 1901-02, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit

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  3. Registrar Cordelia Rose added personal and humorous details to the scroll as the automation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum registration process progressed. This photograph, placed near the end of the scroll, depicts programmer Jay Vanatta walking away and a thought bubble noting

    "Scrolling" Through Museum Processes

    • Date: September 12, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Two almost forgotten scrolls document the automation of museum processes at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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  5. Here At The Smithsonian: Celebrating the Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    • Date: June 22, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The 2021 Smithsonian Folklife Festival begins this weekend. Let’s take a look back at past festivals.

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  7. View of Folders in Accession 12-530. Note the folder labeled Unicorn towards

    Searching for Unicorns

    • Date: July 18, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The discovery of a folder titled, "Unicorn," in collection at first brings excitement then disappointment as the unicorn in question was a unicorn fish, not the mythical unicorn.

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  9. Alison Reppert Gerber, Preservation Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: June 30, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: An introduction to our new Preservation Coordinator, Alison Reppert Gerber.

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  11. Blog Post

    The Vanishing Board: Governance at the Smithsonian during Civil War

    • Date: June 2, 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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  13. Greetings From Anywhere

    • Date: May 3, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: In honor of National Postcard Week May 6–12, 2012, explore postcards from the Archives and the Smithsonian’s collections.

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  15. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  17. Senior Administrators with Bicycles

    Sneak Peek 7/23/2018

    • Date: July 23, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Senior administrators stand next to their bicycles outside the Arts and Industries Building during an energy conservation campaign, 74-4912-01.

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  19. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

    • Date: July 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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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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  23. Star-Spangled Banner, National Museum of American History, c. 1964, MAH-P6427.

    American History, 50 Years of Exhibits

    • Date: May 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A collection of images documenting some of the National Museum of American History's exhibits since its opening 50 years ago.

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