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  1. Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People

    • Date: March 21, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.

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  3. RIMM: Tips for Weeding Your Email

    • Date: April 25, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: For Records and Information Management Month, here are some tips for managing the size of your email account.

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  5. 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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    We Are What We Photograph

    • Date: April 23, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_541" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="Inscription inside Lincoln's watch, by Hugh Talman, 2009, National Museum of American History"][/caption] Does photography always report on the past? Recently, as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration, the Smithsonian took a closer look at a rare Lincoln object that possessed a secret message.

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  9. Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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    Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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    The Field Book Project: Uncovering Hidden Gems at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 21, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Come Fly With Me

    • Date: October 21, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  17. Pink Scrapbook with Blank Cover, by pd_THOR, Creative Commons.

    Cut and Paste, Old Style

    • Date: September 13, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were

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  19. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part II

    • Date: April 28, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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    Scantastic: Scanning Archival Images to Make Them More Useful

    • Date: May 24, 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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    Are You There?

    • Date: July 29, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,

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