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    Folklife Festival 2011: Smithsonian-Peace Corps Environmental Program

    • Date: July 7, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held from June 30 to July 4 and July 7 to 11, 2011 on the National Mall. Read more about the history of the Folklife Festival here. At the Smithsonian Folklife Festival this year, the Peace Corps is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an Executive Order authorizing the Peace Corps to

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  3. A man and woman in beige shirts and pants stand in front of four elephants. Four men are riding the elephants. The man in beige is wearing a hat and binoculars around his neck.

    A Crafty Way to Support the Smithsonian

    • Date: May 14, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Tracing the history of the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, created in 1966 to raise funds to support the Institution, especially its educational programs.

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    Dependent on the Kindness of Strangers: Smithsonian Volunteers

    • Date: April 19, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12022,size=250,left]Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since its earliest years. The Institution has always been “dependent on the kindness of strangers.” Volunteers make tremendous contributions to Smithsonian operations every day in virtually every corner of the globe. The Smithsonian's paid staff of some 6,000 employees is

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  7. S. Dillon Ripley in pram with dog, c. 1914, photographer unknown, photographic print, Accession 93-105 - S. Dillon Ripley Papers, 1950-1989, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2013-10944.

    Happy 100th Birthday, S. Dillon Ripley

    • Date: September 20, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Celebrate the life of the eighth Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley, who was born on September 20, 1913, 100 years ago today!

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  9. Smithsonian Marine Biology Station in Florida

    • Date: October 16, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Did you know the Smithsonian has a Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida, where visiting researchers can study marine organisms onsite?

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    Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse

    • Date: June 25, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.

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  13. Fleeing from the ruined city--California St., from Stockton to Ferry Tower, San Francisco, California, 1906, photograph by Underwood & Underwood, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, neg. no. 13496.

    The Smithsonian Seismological Institute

    • Date: August 26, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian proposed creating a Seismological Institute after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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  15. Did the Curator Really Do It? Popular Culture at the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 1, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: How has the Smithsonian been portrayed in popular culture – fiction writing, movies and television, over the last 160 years and has its popular imaged changed?

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  17. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

    “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

    • Date: March 13, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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    Happy 50th Anniversary NMAH!

    • Date: January 23, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Museum of American History which opened on January 23, 1964.

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    Welcoming Smithsonian Secretaries

    • Date: November 5, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Lonnie G. Bunch III was installed as the Fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian on November 1, 2019 in the historic Arts and Industries Building. To celebrate this new day in Smithsonian history, let’s take a look back at installations past!

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    Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own

    • Date: July 1, 2010
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:

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