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  1. Now You See It, Now You Don't - The Foucault Pendulum at the National Museum of American History

    • Date: November 8, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays, a look inside the Foucault pendulum that used to hang at the National Museum of American History.

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  3. Exterior of the original Corcoran Gallery of Art (now Renwick Gallery) designed by architect James Renwick, Jr. The c. 1930s image shows the building when it served as the U.S. Court of Claims.

    Revisiting Renwick

    • Date: January 27, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.

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  5. Portraits, from the shoulders and up, of white men and women are put together in rows and slightly overlapping one another. The only word on this poster is a handwritten: “Lecturers.”

    Archives Puzzles: Nineteenth-Century Ads

    • Date: July 19, 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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  7. Chicago Wide-Awake Republican Club to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, June 01, 1860 (Certificate of membership). Abraham Lincoln Papers, Library of Congress.

    Link Love: 11/10/2017

    • Date: November 10, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, Washington D.C & American history.

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  9. Page one of The Crossroads exhibit.

    Exhibiting the Enola Gay

    • Date: June 25, 2020
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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    Missed Connections

    • Date: February 3, 2022
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: For Valentine’s Day, we’re digging into some local love stories that started at the Smithsonian.

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    Where to Begin? Determining Founding Dates in ForestGEO’s Global Network of Research Plots

    • Date: April 21, 2020
    • Description: Behind the seemingly objective certitude of a date lies an argument about what counts.

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  15. Washington Monument grounds ceremony at which Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 1927.

    Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927

    • Date: February 2, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.

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  17. Mural of a hippopotamus in a body of water.

    Archives Puzzles: Hippopotamus Side-eye

    • Date: July 6, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.Recently, the Archives added 254 new images to the web that are designated as open access. These photographs

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    Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers

    • Date: July 28, 2011
    • Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of

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  21. Young girl playing a violin with a piano and yellow electric guitar in the background.

    Turn up the Volume - The Electric Guitar

    • Date: March 5, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In November of 1996, the electric guitar, its history and its makers, were the focus of attention at the National Museum of American History.

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    Link Love: 5/30/2014

    • Date: May 30, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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