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    1. Brigadier General Adolphus Washington Greely

      Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

      • Date: August 2, 2016
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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    3. Historic Pictures

      The South Yard

      • Date: March 17, 2011
      • Description: The South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, is bordered on the east by the Arts and Industries Building and west by the Freer Gallery of Art. In the late 19th century, it was the site of small buildings for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Taxidermy Studio, National Zoological Park, and Aerodrome Studio. After World War I, a Quonset hut

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    5. Blog Post

      Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

      • Date: May 11, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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    7. SI History Chronology

      Langley Receives Funding for Aerodrome

      • Date: 1898

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    9. Field Book

      Eugene Amandus Schwarz Papers, 1875-1928 : notebooks, list of Florida Coleoptera collected by Schwarz and Hubbard (Accession 86-023).

      • Date: 1881 1881 1881
      • Creator: Schwarz, Eugene Amandus, 1844-1928

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      Postcard History

      • Date: September 19, 2013
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13918,size=350,right] Postcards, as we are familiar with them today, have taken a considerable amount of time to develop. First restricted by size, color, and other regulations, postcard production blossomed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Postcards were popular because they were a quick and easy way for individuals to communicate with each other.

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    13. Postcard of the Original Star-Spangled Banner

      Postcard of the Original Star-Spangled Banner

      • Date: 1934
      • Creator: Curt Teich & Co
      • Creator: Curt Teich & Co

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    15. SI History Chronology

      Hay's Silver Pen Missing from NMAH

      • Date: February 10, 1981

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    17. Finding Aid

      SIA RU000201, Smithsonian Institution Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, Correspondence and Memoranda, 1875-1902

      • Date: 1875 1875-1902
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    19. James Smithson Memorial Tablet in Genoa

      James Smithson Memorial Tablet in Genoa

      • Date: c. 1963
      • Creator: Unknown
      • Creator: Unknown

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    21. James Smithson Memorial Tablet

      James Smithson Memorial Tablet

      • Date: c. 1963
      • Creator: Unknown
      • Creator: Unknown

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    23. Open journal with handwritten notes in black ink.

      Is there a place for paleography in archives?

      • Date: January 23, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: As we digitize the Archives’ collections to make them available online, I am constantly being exposed to handwriting from the past two centuries. As a result, I have a deeper appreciatiation of how many different things influence the way a person’s writing appears on the page, things beyond the quality of their penmanship. Writing on the deck of a ship, on horseback or on

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