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  1. Color scan of a pamphlet cover with black text.

    Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 14, 2018
    • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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  3. ~~~ Happy Thanksgiving from the Smithsonian Institution Archives ~~~

    Happy Thanksgiving from the Smithsonian Institution Archives!

    • Date: November 26, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Happy Thanksgiving from the Smithsonian Institution Archives!

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  5. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

    Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

    • Date: December 10, 2019
    • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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  7. Unidentified Man on Deck of Ship with Hatching Equiment

    Sneak Peek 5/11/2015

    • Date: May 11, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Unidentified man on deck of ship with hatching equiment (pump and distribution tank) and blocks of ice, United States Fish Commission, MAH-2725.

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  9. Fur Seal Rookery at Pribilof Islands

    Sneak Peek 7/10/2017

    • Date: July 10, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Fur seal rookery at Pribilof Islands, documented during a United States Fish Commission research mission by the USS Albatross, MNH-6853.

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    See Here: 11/16/2010

    • Date: November 16, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Physicist Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906-2005) is shown being interviewed by John O’Neill (science journalist, New York Tribune), and William Laurence (science journalist, New York Times) at the George Washington University Conference on Theoretical Physics, January 1939, by Fremont Davis, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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  13. Two sketches of uniforms for servers for a man and woman. Both are holding trays and wearing aprons.

    Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

    • Date: July 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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    A Well Engineered Photograph

    • Date: November 20, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Construction of the Pension Building, Designed by Montgomery Meigs, c. 1883, by Unknown photographer, Albumen print, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Image ID: AFS 182."][/caption] One of the first collections that I encountered during my travels through the photography collections of the

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    Zoom In, Zoom Out

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In November 1938, Science News Letter published a story on Enrico Fermi winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, running a headshot of the professor. It's the kind of photo found in a passport—Fermi is looking forward with not much of a smile. The next question a historian would ask is did Science Service, the publisher, hire one of its photographers to take the photo, or acquire

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  19. Seine Fishing on Shore of Unidentified Body of Water

    Sneak Peek 10/27/2014

    • Date: October 27, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Stereoscopic photograph of seine fishing on shore of unidentified body of water, United States Fish Commission, circa 1890s, Image Number: MAH-3042.

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  21. U.S. Fish Commission Hatchery

    Sneak Peek 4/30/18

    • Date: April 30, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: U.S. Fish Commission hatchery, with unidentified staff member and tray of roe in view, 1880’s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8062.

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  23. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

    There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

    • Date: March 6, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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