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  1. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

    • Date: June 18, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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    Archiving a Dream

    • Date: December 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Traditionally, when families gather for end-of-the-year holiday events, reminiscences are shared, new photos and videos get made, and/or old snapshots, home movies, and memories resurface. And while most family narratives are revisited in intimate settings, around kitchen tables or in living rooms, a handful may reach broader audiences, through one set of circumstances or

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  5. Kira Sobers works on an audio reel-to-reel tape recorder. It has two tape wheels and many buttons.

    What Our Experts Want You to Know About Digitization

    • Date: May 19, 2020
    • Description: Our digitization experts answer questions about the complicated and time-consuming process of digitizing our collections.

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  7. Group viewing footage of Ling-Ling on camera.

    Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.

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    SIA Acc. 99-024, Smithsonian Institution Institutional Studies Office, Reports and Research Notes, 1989-1993

    • Date: 1989 1989-1993
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Institutional Studies Office
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 98-155, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Office of Special Events, Records, 1975-1989

    • Date: 1975 1975-1989
    • Creator: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Office of Special Events
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  13. Software showing emails with the word Announcement found in a search.

    Announcing the Latest Release of DArcMail

    • Date: December 9, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Archives has released its latest version of its open-source email preservation software suite for anyone to use.

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  15. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

    Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925

    • Date: January 19, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.

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  17. Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe at age 19, wearing her Cartier engagement ring (part of the sale). Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s.

    James Smithson and “The Duchess”: The Sotheby’s Sale of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe’s Property

    • Date: May 27, 2015
    • Description: As a remarkable auction of artifacts of a bygone aristocratic world takes place, we look at a surprising connection between Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe and the Smithsonian’s founding benefactor, James Smithson

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    SIA Acc. 14-040, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2012-2013

    • Date: 2012 2012-2013
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 18-255, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2017

    • Date: 2017
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SI Strategic Plan 2010-2015

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