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    Secretary and Outdoorsman: Alexander Wetmore

    • Date: June 21, 2018
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_12035,size=350,center]June is National Camping Month, and to celebrate we are recognizing one of the Smithsonian’s original outdoorsmen: Alexander Wetmore. The Smithsonian’s sixth Secretary thrived outside. Annually for 20 years Wetmore would make the trip south to Panama, to the same spot, Isla Iguana. There he would conduct his observations, record

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    Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

    • Date: November 7, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.

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    M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit

    • Date: July 30, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

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    For It's One, Two, Three Strikes You're Out...

    • Date: July 17, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="This is America...Keep it Free!, Dorothea Lange, 1942, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that’s continuing to spread

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    Torch 011/1979

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      Torch 11/1979

      • Description: SIA Record Unit 000371, Smithsonian Institution., Office of Public Affairs, The Torch, 1955-1960, 1965-1988, 1979 Box 1 Folder 11

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      Get the Scoop on Smithsonian’s Ice Cream Parlor

      • Date: July 18, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: We all screamed for ice cream at the old-fashioned ice cream parlor at Smithsonian's National Museum of American History between 1981 and 2006.

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      “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered

      • Date: March 27, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Elizabeth Tashjiaan, American painter, 1912-2007, Smithsonian American Art Museum"][/caption]Looking at this photo of artist Elizabeth Tashjian in our new set of portraits of women artists at the Smithsonian Commons on Flickr, it seemed obvious to me that I was looking at a professionally-trained artist, who in fact, won

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    • Documenting the Family Treasure Chest

      • Date: January 22, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Some helpful tips on what documenting and keeping track of family heirlooms or collections.

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    • A group of men and women surround a table in a glass-walled room, listening to a man in a blue shirt describe a parchment document visible on the table in front of him.

      A Tale of Three Contracts

      • Date: September 5, 2019
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: An exciting new accession sheds light on James Smithson’s family history and fortune.

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      Let’s Talk Turkey

      • Date: November 21, 2012
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Birds of a feather flock together, especially if they are a pair of patriotic turkeys who took up residency at the Smithsonian's National Zoo.

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    • Shark Attack Tracks

      • Date: August 8, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Research on shark attacks began at the National Museum of Natural History in 1958 when the Shark Research Panel was formed to track attacks and develop shark repellents.

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