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  1. She Blinded Me With . . . Software?

    • Date: March 7, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: In this interview, Roberta Williams describes how she creates the story and graphics for a computer game, King's Quest.

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  3. Title and many subtitles about death of Hall in the New York Herald.

    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris

    • Date: August 13, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain during the 1871–73 Polaris Expedition.

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  5. A military pension card for Harrison Lomax. He filed in Virginia and is listed in the class

    Harrison Lomax: Smithsonian Employee, Civil War Veteran, Husband, Father

    • Date: September 1, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As a laborer at the Smithsonian from 1882 until his death in 1918, Harrison Lomax served the Institution’s top leaders. A letter in our collections that he wrote to Secretary Samuel P. Langley is an example of the ways in which African American employees advocated for themselves in order to earn promotions and raises.

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    Link Love: 4/9/2010

    • Date: April 9, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  9. Snowflake Study, 1890, by Wilson A. Bentley, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Smithsonian's Top 6 Archives Myths

    • Date: October 26, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The top five myths about the archives at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  11. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

    Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

    • Date: November 14, 2013
    • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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    William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History

    • Date: July 17, 2018
    • Description: Ron Vasile teaches AP U.S. History, U.S. History and Anthropology at Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois.We bring to you the story of a dedicated naturalist turned museum pioneer.

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  15. A woman sits at a desk near a typewriter and many stacks of papers.

    Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt

    • Date: April 18, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.

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  17. George McBryde, Museum Aide in the Division of Cultural History.

    The Long Journey to Scientific Aide: Barry Hampton’s Career

    • Date: February 16, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Barry Hampton played an important role in Division of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Natural History Museum for decades, but recognition was slow to come.

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    Answer me this?

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. drawing or engravings of bird heads, The bird is black with a white color on its wing. A fuller sketch is in the center and surrounded by three sketches of bird heads.

    Link Love: 4/10/2020

    • Date: April 10, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical

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    Link Love: 2/5/2010

    • Date: February 5, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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