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    See Here: 4/27/2010

    • Date: April 27, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot (Secretary, 1928-1944) and two unidentified persons viewing site for Table Mountain Observatory in California, The Table Mountain Observatory was closed in 1961, c. 1925, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005 Box 187 Folder 7, Negative

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    See Here: 8/25/2010

    • Date: August 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Mrs. Edna Winston, wife of Harry Winston, presenting the Hope Diamond to Secretary Leonard Carmichael and Curator George Switzer on November 10, 1958, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 57, Folder 11, Negative Number: SIA2008-2293."][/caption]

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    See Here: 8/31/2010

    • Date: August 31, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927) Charles D. Walcott at camp in the field with four unidentified men, One man is sharpening an ax blade, The other three men are in the process of skinning some small animals, either beavers or woodchucks, Date unknown, some time in the 1910s or 1920s, by

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    See Here: 10/13/2010

    • Date: October 13, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Secretary S. Dillon Ripley greet Queen Elizabeth II outside the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB) or "Castle," July 8, 1976, during her visit to the United States to commemorate the Bicentennial of the American Revolution, 1976, by James Wallace, Black and white photographic

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  9. 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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  11. Giant panda at National Zoo.

    Panda-Rama

    • Date: July 11, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling arrive at the National Zoo.

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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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  15. Blog Post

    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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  17. Marion Stirling Pugh holds an iguana. She is wearing field work clothes.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marion Stirling Pugh

    • Date: May 27, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to

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  19. Portrait of Freida Austin from The Prophet.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Freida Austin Johnson

    • Date: February 3, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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  21. Blog Post

    See Here: 5/6/2010

    • Date: May 6, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Group photograph of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory employees, including Florence Meier Chase, fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928-1944) Charles Greeley Abbot (second from the left), M. Agnes Neill, Earl S. Johnston, Robert Weintraub, Anne Lucka, William Hoover, Edward D. McAlister, and unidentified

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    See Here: 12/16/2009

    • Date: December 16, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot (fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1928-1944) carrying the house-fly vane radiometer afoot up the Mount Wilson, California trail. Abbot made this instrument in Pasadena, California, but carried it by hand up the trail

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