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  1. An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane

    • Date: January 19, 2012
    • Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.

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  3. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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    Link Love: 2/16/2018

    • Date: February 16, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The University of Iowa Libraries released an avant-garde archive online: Digital Dada Library and the Fluxus Digital Collection. [via University of Iowa]The Hirshhorn's new indoor café has 700-year old tree roots for tables, excellent coffee, and a planned outdoor gelato stand opening this summer! [via Washingtonian]Romeo, who may be the last remaining Sehuencas water frog,

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  7. Telephone Operators, C.1914-1917, by Harris & Ewing, glass negative, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-04117.

    April Fool’s, Mr. Lyon!

    • Date: March 31, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The National Zoo gets flooded with phone calls in a 1919 April Fool’s prank.

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    Link Love: 7/14/2017

    • Date: July 14, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Perfect fodder for animated gifs; zootropes. [via Unfunk]Send SFMOMA a text and it will respond with art! [via SFMOMA]Eerie plaster casts of people and animals in their final moments before being buried in Pompeii. [via Atlas Obscura]Weighing newborn babies wasn't "a thing" until the 20th century. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]Archives Unleashed

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    Picture Perfect? Not All the Games We Play

    • Date: June 9, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: While we at the Photography Initiative like to argue that photography changes everything, it’s not always the case. On June 2nd, in a controversial ninth inning call, baseball umpire Jim Joyce denied Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga a shot at making history for pitching a “perfect” game. Joyce—from his point of view behind first base—saw a batter hit a ball, make it

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  13. Benjamin the Anti-Christ's Doomsday Prophecy

    • Date: December 21, 2012
    • Description: In 1866, Benjamin the Anti Christ predicted earthquakes, war, and brain paralysis for the world—a prophecy that reached the SI Archives.

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  15. Animated gif of religious figure blessing snakes passing by at his feet.

    Link Love: 4/14/2017

    • Date: April 14, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Breathing new life into medieval manuscripts at Bodelain Library. [via Adam Koszary/Medium]Over 600 new rights-free videos and other media showing embryos, robots, and bouncing water droplets! [via Wikimedia Open Access Report]The Smithsonian is gathering thought leaders in environmental and species conservation on Earth Day for their 1st Earth Optimism Summit, and our own Pam

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  17. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

    Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 2, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Portrait photograph of Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929), entomologist at the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian from 1897 until his death in 1929, c. 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Negative Number: SIA2009-0002."][/caption] It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in

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    The World Is Yours: Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives

    • Date: March 4, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives.”

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  23. The Journey to Recovery: A Tale of Earthquake Damage and Repair in Haiti

    • Date: February 23, 2012
    • Description: The story of the damage context and advanced treatment of a Stivenson Magloire painting broken into fragments by the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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