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  1. | ˚-˚ | Listen In - Transporting You Back to 1994 | ˚-˚ |

    • Date: November 19, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibition was a collaboration of fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers. The exhibition featured sculpture, performance, poetry,

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  3. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2009-4133.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds

    • Date: April 7, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.

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  5. A man sits at a desk in an office. Papers and books are stacked on desks in the office.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

    • Date: July 21, 2022
    • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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    Our Other, Photographic Selves

    • Date: March 25, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Ralph Waldo Emerson, between 1860 and 1870, by J. W. Black & Co., Photographic print on carte-de-visite mount, Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer family papers, 1851-1999 bulk 1881-1950, Archives of American Art, Digital ID: 5677. "][/caption] From the beginning, photography upset conventional ideas about the relationship

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  9. Mary Foote Henderson dressed to the nines as a Washington, D.C. hostess, by the Brady Studio. Record Unit 7075 - The Henderson Family Papers, 1868-1923, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    A Hidden Woman

    • Date: March 20, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: An extraordinary look at a woman in the Archives collections, Mary Foote Henderson.

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  11. Exterior of the original Corcoran Gallery of Art (now Renwick Gallery) designed by architect James Renwick, Jr. The c. 1930s image shows the building when it served as the U.S. Court of Claims.

    Revisiting Renwick

    • Date: January 27, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.

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  13. Panda-monium!

    • Date: April 16, 2012
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Arrival of giant pandas Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling to the National Zoological Park.

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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    “Dependent upon the Kindness of Strangers”: Volunteers and the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 10, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the contributions volunteers have made at the Archives and across the Smithsonian.

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  19. The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III

    • Date: February 7, 2013
    • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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  21. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

    National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

    • Date: September 18, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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  23. Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, Unidentified photographer

    Top 10 Photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons

    • Date: July 3, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A profile of the top ten photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commmons—from scientists to babies sent in the mail.

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