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    Spencer Fullerton Baird, 1823-1887

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

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  3. Shooting a passenger pigeon flock; July 3, 1875; published in

    Martha, A Cold and Lonely Last Migration

    • Date: June 26, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her species, who was donated to the National Museum of Natural History 100 years ago.

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    Anacostia Neighborhood Museums Changes Name to Anacostia Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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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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      Link Love: 12/17/2010

      • Date: December 17, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers

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    • Mother pygmy hippopotamus and calf at the National Zoological Park.

      Link Love: 04/02/2021

      • Date: April 2, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    • You Spin Me Round - Frisbee Festivals on the Mall

      • Date: May 23, 2019
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Starting in 1977, the National Air and Space Museum, with assistance from the International Frisbee Association, Wham-O Manufacturing Company, volunteer instructors from several states, and the Washington Area Frisbee Club, held their first Frisbee Festival on the National Mall.

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      Heart of Glass

      • Date: October 5, 2017
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph

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      SITES Transfers to US National Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      • Postcard of the National Museum

        Postcard of the National Museum

        • Date: February 5, 1911

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        WWII: Collecting and Interpreting the War

        • Date: June 27, 2016
        • Description: Not only did the Smithsonian research in Washington, D.C., inform the course of World War II, the war also shaped the collections and research of the Smithsonian. Military medical staff sent thousands of specimens of disease carrying insects to the museum for identification. Soldiers stationed in far-flung locations provided the Smithsonian with collecting opportunities that

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      • Letterhead from Professor Thorndike Saville, Associate Professor of Sanitary Engineering, stating that they never have, nor will, register women in the engineering department.

        Link Love: 6/9/2017

        • Date: June 9, 2017
        • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
        • Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants

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