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  1. Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe at age 19, wearing her Cartier engagement ring (part of the sale). Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s.

    James Smithson and “The Duchess”: The Sotheby’s Sale of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe’s Property

    • Date: May 27, 2015
    • Description: As a remarkable auction of artifacts of a bygone aristocratic world takes place, we look at a surprising connection between Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe and the Smithsonian’s founding benefactor, James Smithson

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    I Found My Dad at the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 2, 2010
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 10/28/2010

    • Date: October 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="On January 25, 1904, a military procession to Smithsonian Institution grounds brings the remains of James Smithson (c.1765-1829) whose bequest created the Smithsonian, His remains had been transported by Alexander Graham Bell, a member of the Board of Regents, from Genoa, Italy, after the Italian cemetery had fallen into

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  7. Hansen sits on a balcony ledge overlooking the water with another man. He is not wearing a shirt and both men are looking toward the camera.

    Capturing Panama with Carl C. Hansen

    • Date: June 15, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Today is Nature Photography Day, so we’re highlighting the career and work of Smithsonian photographer Carl C. Hansen.

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    See Here: 10/18/2010

    • Date: October 18, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="427" caption="After three years at the National Portrait Gallery, (l-r) William Trossen, Terry Conable, Lina Best and David Price are moving the Gilbert Stuart portraits of George and Martha Washington for shipment to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where they will be displayed under an alternating exhibition plan worked out in 1980

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    See Here: 10/25/2010

    • Date: October 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="334" caption="Paul Rhymer, Exhibits Specialist in Taxidermy at Exhibits Central, shows off the radio-controlled badger he created for Brian Miller, a post-doctoral fellow working at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center (CRC) in Front Royal, VA, The "robo-badger" had been found as road-kill and mailed to Rhymer frozen,

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    Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

    • Date: November 27, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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    You Asked, We Answered: Taking Care of Your Own Archives

    • Date: October 28, 2010
    • 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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  17. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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  19. Close-up of a photograph of a snowflake with six points.

    Crafting the Archives Way!

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I’ve been inspired by the snowflakes Wilson A. Bentley photographed through a microscope in the late 1800's ever since I first saw them in the Archives. Bentley donated 500 of his photographs to the Smithsonian in 1903 (you can read more about them in a post by Archives colleague, Courtney Esposito). The images capture nature at its most creative, mathematical, and elegant.

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  21. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

    The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

    • Date: May 13, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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    A Life on the Wild Side: Lucile Quarry Mann

    • Date: March 15, 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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