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    Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

    • Date: April 28, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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  3. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

    Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

    • Date: September 24, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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    See Here: 5/11/2010

    • Date: May 11, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Photograph of the Samuel P. Langley commemorative statue at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, California, in 1915, Langley was the third Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1906, and pioneer in astrophysics and aerial navigation, c. 1915, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print,

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    You Asked, We Answered: Taking Care of Your Own Archives

    • Date: October 28, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    And the Winner Is . . . Photography!

    • Date: October 9, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2474" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Silicon Eye, from the inner core.... the 5 Megapixel CCD sensor that electronically captures the image, by Flickr user jurvetson."][/caption] The Nobel Prize jury recently announced three winners in physics, who’ve been dubbed "the masters of light" for their innovations in the ways photographic images are

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    See Here: 12/7/2009

    • Date: December 7, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="Franklin Printing Press, Date unknown, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285 Box 17 Folder 3, Negative Number:17539-B."][/caption]

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Eunice Newton Foote

    • Date: May 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Help us find a photograph of Eunice Newton Foote! Scientist Eunice Newton Foote, in 1856, was the 1st to speculate that modest increases in CO2 concentration could result in atmospheric warming, and was a contributor to the Smithsonian's weather data project.

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    Sneak Peek: 6/8/2011

    • Date: June 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Stagnitto Ellis

    • Date: September 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Since 2009, Janice Stagnitto Ellis has been the senior paper and book conservator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. Between 1992 and 1999, Ellis worked as a senior book conservator at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. In her current role at the Museum, Ellis supervises the day-to-day operations of the Paper Conservation Lab. She is responsible for the

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    See Here: 2/17/2010

    • Date: February 17, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="Groundbreaking for the Freer Gallery of Art building, September 3, 1916, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 56 Folder 12, Negative Number: 94-4417."][/caption]

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    See Here: 11/3/2009

    • Date: November 3, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Construction of National Museum of Natural History Rotunda Dome, 1908, by unknown photographer, photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 4, Negative Number:2004-10334. "][/caption]

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    See Here: 9/8/2010

    • Date: September 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="Exhibit of a hippopotamus in the Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History, 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44A Folder 2, Negative Number: MNH-217."][/caption]

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