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  1. Instructions for fingerprint animals from the Friend of the National Zoo publica

    Crafting from the Collections: Fingerprint Animals

    • Date: December 20, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Archives staff makes fingerprint animals based on craft activity found in zoo publication from 1970s.

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    Tips from Smithsonian Photographers on Photographing Fireworks

    • Date: June 28, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Note: This blog post borrows heavily from the article, “Shooting Fireworks: Capture the Spectacle,” from former Smithsonian employee, Jim Wallace (originally published on the Smithsonian staff photographer’s website in 1995), with valuable additions from Ken Rahaim. The 4th of July is coming up next week, promising picnics, gatherings, and of course, fireworks. You may have

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  5. The Getty's IIIF viewer, via the Getty blog.

    Link Love: 6/02/2017

    • Date: June 2, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    Online Soul

    • Date: June 7, 2010
    • Description: One of the goals of THE BIGGER PICTURE blog is to highlight stories about the ways images delivered in an online environment can describe extraordinary events or comment equally powerfully on our everyday life. Our contributors talk about collections at the Smithsonian, about images or archives that are making headlines, or about people that make, care for, and think about

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  9. Cockroach Kitchen, Dynamics of Evolution Hall, 1979, photographic print, Accession 13-125 - National Museum of Natural History, Office of Education, Exhibition Records, 1978-1979, 1995-1996, 2003, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. 87-7526.

    The Cockroach Kitchen

    • Date: October 29, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.

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  11. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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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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  15. Frank Thone and a "Square Deal" on Earth Day

    • Date: April 22, 2013
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A photo montage of a science journalist and a fly illustrates the man's sense of humor and attitudes toward nature.

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    It’s Our Anniversary…

    • Date: March 2, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="305" caption="Cake, by Daniel Nelson, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0."][/caption] It’s hard to believe, but it has been two years to the day that THE BIGGER PICTURE has been in existence (note: that rogue January post doesn’t count as it was backdated)! The blog was started by the Smithsonian Photography

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  19. The world’s first airplane was built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and flown for the first time in Kitty Hawk, N.C. on Dec. 17, 1903. In addition to making those historic first flights, the Wright Flyer embodies fundamental elements of all subsequent airplanes.

    Link Love: 11/15/2013

    • Date: November 15, 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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  21. 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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    Once and For All, the Chicken or the Egg?

    • Date: April 23, 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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