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      NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Facility Marks 10 Years

      • Date: December 12, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: NASM’s Udvar-Hazy facility celebrates its 10th anniversary.

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    3. Page one of The Crossroads exhibit.

      Exhibiting the Enola Gay

      • Date: June 25, 2020
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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    5. Charles Jones, “Vegetables, Bean Runner”

      Link Love: 10/28/2016

      • Date: October 28, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You

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      Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

      • Date: March 24, 2016
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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    9. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Tracks, 1882, Harpers Weekly, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78090.

      Quidditch in Henry Park?

      • Date: April 3, 2014
      • Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?

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    11. Five Smithsonian employees provide answers to the question: What is your family’s signature Thanksgiving dish?

      The Smithsonian Point of View: Pumpkin Pie, Pez, and Pastrami

      • Date: November 28, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.

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      From Wright Memorial to Museum for the Space Age

      • Date: November 2, 2017
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14760,size=200,left] On July 1, 2016, the current National Air and Space Museum (NASM) building, covered with a Tenessee pink marble façade and recessed glass bays, celebrated its 40th anniversary. For this, NASM reopened its central exhibition, the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, and hosted various events including greetings from Mars and from

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    15. Sen. John F. Kennedy campaigns with his wife in Boston, 1958, by Carl Mydans.

      The Good Wife

      • Date: September 28, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    17. Aerial photograph of the National Mall with the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt covering the four blocks west of the U.S. Capitol Building.

      Hot Topics in Archival Research, Fall 2022

      • Date: November 3, 2022
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields thousands of questions per year.

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    19. Paul E. Garber with Model under Spirit of St. Louis, National Air and Space Museum, neg. no. NASM--9A06513.

      Spirit of St. Louis Was Star Attraction for Smithsonian

      • Date: April 30, 2015
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: April 30 marks the anniversary of when Charles Lindbergh flew his Spirit of St. Louis to the Smithsonian Institution to donate.

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    21. Langley with His Aerodrome.

      Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

      • Date: December 15, 2015
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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    23. National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Day, September 4, 1977, by Richard Hofmeister, Accession 11-009, Smithsonian Photographic Services, Photographic Collection, 1971-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 77-12428-2A.

      National Air and Space Frisbee Festival

      • Date: June 12, 2014
      • Description: A brief look into the 1977, 1978 and 1979 National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Festival held on the National Mall.

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