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    We Are What We Photograph

    • Date: April 23, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_541" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="Inscription inside Lincoln's watch, by Hugh Talman, 2009, National Museum of American History"][/caption] Does photography always report on the past? Recently, as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration, the Smithsonian took a closer look at a rare Lincoln object that possessed a secret message.

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    See Here: 10/29/2010

    • Date: October 29, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="James Smithson's (c.1765-1829) casket in the Regents' Room, South Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," before its transfer to the Crypt at the North Entrance, Smithson's remains were brought to the United States by Smithsonian Regent Alexander Graham Bell, 1904, by Unidentified photographer, Black

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    See Here: 4/7/2011

    • Date: April 7, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Mary Agnes Chase, botanist with the United States Department of Agriculture and honorary curator of the Grass Herbarium at the United States National Herbarium, Smithsonian Institution, is on horseback along side a man on horseback, c. 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian

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    See Here: 4/26/2011

    • Date: April 26, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="297" caption="Curator of Grasses Mary Agnes Chase receives an award from Smithsonian Secretary Leonard Carmichael, Chase was Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, October 2, 1958, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white

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  9. Five images in a contact sheet of a woman being surprised by a group waiting in a room. It appears that she has been gifted a portrait of a man.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann S. Campbell

    • Date: March 2, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Ann S. Campbell was one of the first women managers at the Smithsonian. Between 1968 and 1980, she directed the Management Analysis Office, responsible for surveying the Institution’s offices on their objectives, staffing, and function and developing any necessary operational changes. Under Campbell, the office was also tasked with issuing Smithsonian directives, including

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    See Here: 10/1/2010

    • Date: October 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Men preparing the Wright 1909 Military Plane to be moved out of the North Hall of the Arts and Industries Building, August 1975, The Lunar Module can be seen on the left, by Richard Farrar, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:

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    See Here: 10/12/2010

    • Date: October 12, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Bernard Finn, curator in Division of Electricity & Nuclear Energy (NMHT), Richard Moskow (Silver Creations, Ltd.) and Randall King (Lanello Reserves, Inc.) examine a section of the 1858 Atlantic cable, c. 1974, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit

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    See Here: 10/27/2010

    • Date: October 27, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Former President Gerald Ford at the unveiling of his presidential portrait in a ceremony in the National Portrait Gallery's (NPG) Hall of Presidents, June 1988, The portrait was painted by Everett Raymond Kinstler, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit

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    See Here: 10/5/2010

    • Date: October 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Waldo LaSalle Schmitt at the Cosmos Hotel, Punta Arenas, Chile, Schmitt, curator of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum, conducted extensive field work in South America, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7231 Box 83 Folder

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    See Here: 1/5/2010

    • Date: January 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Three black-billed magpies in the National Zoological Park's Flight Cage, 1978, by Vichai Malikul, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder June 1978, Negative number: 94-8329."][/caption]

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    See Here: 2/14/2011

    • Date: February 14, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="308" caption="On the plaza of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, February 1985, one of the two hearts of Jim Dine's bronze work "Two Big Black Hearts" is being hoisted by workmen using ropes in preparation for its installation inside the museum, 1985, by Lee Stalsworth, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    See Here: 4/12/2011

    • Date: April 12, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="367" caption="A diorama of Andrew Ellicott and his assistant Benjamin Banneker taking a break from surveying the boundaries of Washington, D.C., in "Laying out the Nation's Capital" in the Hall of Physical Sciences, 1966, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95,

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