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    1. Here At The Smithsonian: Traveling Exhibitions

      • Date: November 30, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: As we close out this blog series, let’s take a look at two past traveling exhibitions.

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    3. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

      • Date: December 4, 2012
      • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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    5. Revisiting the Magnificent Enterprise

      • Date: March 20, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month, we’d like to revisit an important and inspiring exhibition circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in 1961. “The Magnificient Enterprise: Education Opens the Door” was a photographic exhibition based on the 100 years of higher education for women. Sponsored by Vassar College in observance of its

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    7. Black and white digital graphic of a rocket

      What We Are Working On: Digital Preservation

      • Date: May 29, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired and accessioned digital records from Smithsonian Exhibits. Smithsonian Exhibits, Exhibition Records, circa 2000-2016, SIA 18-150 is an exciting collection that documents the design of exhibitions for Smithsonian museums and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). SITES offers exhibitions to other

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    9. Close-up of a woman with short hair and wearing a scarf.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dorothy T. Van Arsdale

      • Date: December 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dorothy T. Van Arsdale, Chief, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1964–70, managed logistics for traveling exhibitions around the world. A major part of her role was negotiating with host countries about shipping, transportation, conservation, and more. #Groundbreaker

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    11. Portrait of Taqulittuq. Her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back into a bun. She is wearing a plaid dress with a white collar. She is smiling slightly toward the camera.

      Archives Puzzles: Traveling with Taqulittuq

      • Date: September 13, 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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    13. Watson Davis’s handwritten notes on the day he first met John Thomas Scopes in June 1925. Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Science Service: Up Close

      • Date: May 19, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Each Smithsonian Institution Archives collection has a life story. That narrative, much like the biography of a person, can explain how a collection's photographs, letters, and documents relate to each other. Closer inspection may also reveal hidden connections to other archival materials and can help in identifying photographers and writers. This new blog series will turn a

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    15. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    17. Helen Miles Davis (left), Thomas Robert Henry (center) and Jane Stafford (right), 1942. Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-3802.

      Science Service, Up Close: Covering the Atom, August 1945

      • Date: August 6, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Details of Helen Miles Davis and Science Service coverage of the atomic bomb.

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    19. Portrait photograph of a woman, holding one hand to her chin.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna R. Cohn

      • Date: April 3, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Anna R. Cohn, Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), 1988–2014, toured groundbreaking exhibitions across the United States. She joined the Smithsonian in 1983 as director of the international exhibition “The Precious Legacy” and later organized “Generations” for the S. Dillon Ripley Center’s International Gallery. #Groundbreaker

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    21. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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    23. Two floppy disks labeled with the ZooArk info. One is from the rhino files and the other is from the tiger files.

      Where Will This Lead? Exhibits, Zoos and Video-dating

      • Date: January 14, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.

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