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    Adventures of an Ecologist

    • Date: January 7, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A Flickr Set from the field work of Helmut Buechner.

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    See Here: 4/29/2010

    • Date: April 29, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="416" caption="The Art Room in the East Wing of the Smithsonian Institution Building, created by third Secretary Samuel P. Langley. The furnishings were specially designed by Hornblower and Marshall. Encircling the room was a plaster copy of the Parthenon frieze and carbon photographs by Adolphe Braun of Old Master portraits and

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    Miscellaneous Adventures into Standard Forms at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 5, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: For the next installment of “Miscellaneous Adventures,” we’ve taken a dive into blank standardized forms once used at the Smithsonian, found in Record Unit 65, Smithsonian Institution Chief Clerk, Forms, Circulars, Announcements, 1846-1933, Box 14, Folder Miscellaneous Forms – Assorted. And these forms are certainly assorted! The contents range from memorandum forms to

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    How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;

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    A very jolly day...

    • Date: December 23, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah, c. 1907, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Records, 1902-1965 (Record Unit 7091), Image ID: SIA2009-0983."][/caption] Alright, I admit it. I often write about the Walcott family and why not?

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  11. Mounting Photographs with Earth Magnets

    • Date: May 7, 2013
    • Description: A photograph of Charles Greeley Abbot belonging to the Smithsonian Archives was in need of conservation. The photograph is stable, but the board to which the photograph is mounted is broken into three pieces. The board was stabilized and placed into a new housing constructed with rare earth magnets to impose a slight pressure on the object. The new housing holds the object

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    Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

    • Date: August 2, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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  15. Smithsonian Carousel on the National Mall, by Casey McAdams, Smithsonian Institu

    A Favorite - The Smithsonian Carousel

    • Date: April 11, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: The Smithsonian Carousel celebrates the anniversary of its opening on April 12.

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    See Here: 4/21/2011

    • Date: April 21, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="340" caption="Image of Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and Smithsonian Secretary, with Baldomiro Moreno, The two men are sitting in a jeep near the Rio Chico, Chico, Panama, April 4, 1948, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Box 176, Folder: Album 2,

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    See Here:12/22/2009

    • Date: December 22, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Secretary Charles G. Abbot's Solar Cooker at Mt. Wilson, CA, Date unknown, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005 Box 189 Folder 1, Negative Number: MAH 11020-B."][/caption]

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    See Here: 12/24/2009

    • Date: December 24, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Secretary Samuel P. Langley studying and photographing birds in flight from a tower on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, 1901, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 10, Negative

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    See Here: 2/1/2010

    • Date: February 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="Aerodrome designed by the third Smithsonian Secretary, Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), on one of its brief, unsuccessful, test flights along the Potomac River, 1903, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 15 Folder 9A, Negative Number: 2002-10628."][/caption]

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