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    A History of Celebrating the Insect Zoo

    • Date: August 23, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: When you think of the National Museum of Natural History, what comes to mind are probably inanimate things—rocks and dinosaur bones, cultural objects, and stuffed animals. But did you know that the museum has a collection of live insects? Today is the 35th anniversary of the opening of the permanent installation of the Insect Zoo, though the Zoo actually began as a temporary

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    Jun 20 Construction Is Completed on New US National Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Smithsonian Gardens

      • Date: September 4, 2018
      • Description: During debates about the Smithsonian’s founding, the idea of using James Smithson’s bequest for a botanic garden was included in several drafts of the bill considered by Congress. In 1850, President Millard Fillmore commissioned America’s preeminent landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing to design plans for the National Mall, including grounds around the Smithsonian Castle,

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      Renovated "Orkin Insect Zoo" Opens in Natural History Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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        Spencer F. Baird Becomes Head of US National Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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          "How Things Fly" Exhibit Opens at Air & Space Museum | Smithsonian Institution Archives

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          • Link Love: 9/17/2021

            • Date: September 17, 2021
            • 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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          • An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane

            • Date: January 19, 2012
            • Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.

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          • Graphic with black & white photo of Malone alongside text description of her achievements in African American hair products.

            Link Love: 3/24/2017

            • Date: March 24, 2017
            • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
            • Description: Meet the women behind African American hair care! [via #HiddenHerstory]MIT Libraries is kicking off the "Women in Science and Engineering@MIT" archival initiative to improve the representation of women in their archives. [via MIT Libraries]Know someone with cognitive and sensory processing disabilities? Tell them about Morning at the Museum, a program that provides early

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          • The Lucius D. Copeland steam tricycle in front of the Carriage Porch of the nort

            Smithsonian History/Map Mashup on Historypin

            • Date: October 4, 2011
            • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
            • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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          • Snow Day at the Smithsonian's National Zoo, December 10, 2013. Courtesy of the National Zoo.

            Link Love: 12/13/2013

            • Date: December 13, 2013
            • Creator: Mitch Toda
            • 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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            Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology

            • Date: 1859

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