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  1. Harrison E. Howe, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID 2008-3958.

    Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?

    • Date: November 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.

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    Look! Up in the Sky! It’s a Man! In a Raincoat!

    • Date: January 11, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4184" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Obama Billboard in Times Square, New York, January 7, 2010, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman."][/caption] Both the media and Times Square were aflutter recently over a photograph of President Obama used without permission on a huge two-sided billboard in midtown Manhattan to advertise men’s coats.

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  5. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1989) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research with the naming of a geographic feature, Landrum Island. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Betty Jane Landrum

    • Date: June 3, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memoriam: Betty Jane Landrum, longtime partner and wife of reference archivist, Ellen Alers. Biologist Betty Jane Landrum (far right) worked at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (1965-1974) supporting systematic research all over the world. She was awarded the Smithsonian Career Service award in 1976 and was honored for her contributions to Antarctic research

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  7. Lantern slide photograph on glass in wood mount, William Langenheim (1807–1874) and Frederick Langenheim (1809–1879) Philadelphia, 1850.

    Deconstructing a Mystery: Rare photo proves to be the earliest ever taken of the Smithsonian Castle

    • Date: August 10, 2015
    • Description: A rare hyalotype proves to be the earliest known photo of the Smithsonian Castle, taken in 1850 when it was still under construction.

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  9. Finding the Digital Treasures

    • Date: November 1, 2012
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Highlighting some of the Archives favorite digital objects in its collections.

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    Link Love: 6/4/2010

    • Date: June 4, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="314" caption="The Amb. Richard B. Parker Photographs contains 200 black and white prints, 481 black and white negatives, and two black and white contact sheets of Islamic monuments in Algeria, Cairo, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Morocco, and Spain, 1965-1979, by Richard Bordeaux Parker, Unknown medium, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M.

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  13. Adopt-a-Book save-the-date promo graphic. The background is a painting of purple flowers. The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo is on the left. The right includes the text: Save the dates Adopt-a-Book Salons.

    Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book Program

    • Date: March 10, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We all have the opportunity to support the Smithsonian—come see how the Libraries and Archives Adopt-a-Book program offers a chance to do so.

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  15. Goody Goody Gumdrops

    • Date: September 25, 2012
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A history of pygmy hippopotamus naming conventions at the National Zoological Park.

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  17. 2 men in a field on wooden platform with telescope with one man peering up into the telescope.

    2017 Top Blog Posts

    • Date: December 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It's interesting to look back and see what resonated with you, our readers, this past year. Clearly, we along with many of you were fascinated by the solar eclipse of 2017 that was viewable from many parts of the U.S. Three of the top 10 were about solar eclipses. You also were captivated by our efforts to bring more attention to women in science. Three of the posts have to do

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    See Here: 7/18/2011

    • Date: July 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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  23. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

    Open Minds Open Doors

    • Date: March 15, 2012
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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