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    1. Florence Merriam Bailey Diary (1874). Entries March 1-2 with drawings. Record Unit 7417 - Florence Merriam Bailey Papers, 1865-1942, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Outstanding Women in Ornithology: Florence Merriam Bailey

      • Date: March 25, 2014
      • Description: With women’s history month upon us, SIA would like to recognize ornithologist and nature writer Florence Merriam Bailey.

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    3. 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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    5. Group viewing footage of Ling-Ling on camera.

      Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo

      • Date: August 23, 2016
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.

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    7. Facing our Fears

      • Date: October 30, 2018
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire.

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    9. A man leans over a table. Camera equipment is in the background.

      Archives Puzzles: National Camera Day Flashback

      • Date: June 28, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    11. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

      Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

      • Date: December 10, 2020
      • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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    13. Display of a wall of orchids inside the Hirshhorn Museum.

      Orchids and Oral History

      • Date: April 16, 2020
      • Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.

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    15. Formal black and white headshot of a woman wearing earrings and a necklace, smiling slightly.

      Mildred Stratton Wilson

      • Date: March 3, 2022
      • Description: We’re exploring the career of a Smithsonian barrier-breaker in marine biology.

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    17. Color image of an auditorium with people sitting and attending a conference.

      We Are Not Alone: Progress in the Digital Preservation Community

      • Date: October 2, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: An international community of researchers and practitioners are driving the professional practice of digital preservation towards greater maturity and opening doors to new levels of access.

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    19. Spirit Photograph, Harry Houdini with Ghost of Abraham Lincoln, by Harry Houdini, via Wikimedia Commons, Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

      Panoramic Panic Part III

      • Date: October 30, 2014
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: Our conservator shares some scary and not-so-scary advice on dealing with rolled panoramic photographs.

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      Yes, We’re Still Talking About Email

      • Date: August 4, 2015
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Archives and libraries are seeking various ways to preserve and to make email collections available to researchers.

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    23. Stapled sheet of paper with a red and blue background and an image of a baseball player, wearing a Pirates jersey, kneeling with a baseball bat in the grass. The title on the page is

      I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

      • Date: June 18, 2019
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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