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    See Here: 1/14/2011

    • Date: January 14, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 12/2/2011

    • Date: December 2, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Adventures in the Morgue

    • Date: March 16, 2009
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the second in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. In a 1930s movie about hotshot newspaper reporters, you might hear the star (Jimmy Cagney, probably) yell

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    See Here: 3/12/2010

    • Date: March 12, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="305" caption="During his years at Albany Academy and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Joseph Henry (1797-1878), first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 to 1878, designed the most powerful electromagnets of his day, 1978, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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    Link Love: 3/26/2010

    • Date: March 26, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="193" caption="Camel cigarette advertisement from Vanity Fair, 1934, by Unknown creator, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, ID: SIL7-78-03."][/caption] Cigarettes and gardenias . . . The Smithsonian Institution Libraries blog checks out old trade literature on women, commerce, and society. Beautiful digital flipbooks at Mediastorm. I

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    Never Just the Facts

    • Date: April 22, 2010
    • Description: For the last year the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has been preparing to celebrate its 100 year anniversary. As part of the celebration, curators and archivists have been combing the files in preparation for an exhibition of historic photographs that will describe the museum’s history. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="218" caption="Photomicrograph

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  13. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

    Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

    • Date: June 9, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 11/5/2009

    • Date: November 5, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="337" caption="Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Slide-Rule Machine, 1931, by Unknown Photographer, Photographic Print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number:24622."][/caption]

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  17. Auto polo (LOC), by Bain News Service, between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915.

    Link Love: 3/9/2012

    • Date: March 9, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    Link Love: 6/11/2010

    • Date: June 11, 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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    If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it...

    • Date: May 10, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: The seven scientists asked to testify for the defense standing in front of the Defense Mansion, 1925, by Watson Davis, Black and white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Image # SIA2008-1146"][/caption] We are nearing the 2nd anniversary of the Smithsonian launching on the

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  23. 3 panels of various stages of rocket-like mechanism firing

    Link Love: 6/15/2018

    • Date: June 15, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As the Lichtenstein Foundation closes, half a million documents are coming to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art! [via NY Times]Bitcoin is entering the art market. [via Mutual Art]Hyperspectral scanning reveals Picasso's process during his "blue period." [via The Star]What could possibly connect Abraham Lincoln to vampires? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American

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