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      How the Archives Gets its Records (or, Golden Lion Tamarins Galore)

      • Date: October 27, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Online Soul

      • Date: June 7, 2010
      • Description: One of the goals of THE BIGGER PICTURE blog is to highlight stories about the ways images delivered in an online environment can describe extraordinary events or comment equally powerfully on our everyday life. Our contributors talk about collections at the Smithsonian, about images or archives that are making headlines, or about people that make, care for, and think about

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      The Times They Are a-Changin' at The Bigger Picture

      • Date: November 2, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This period of extended telework has allowed The Bigger Picture team to slow down and strategize about the future of the blog. Read about a few of the changes coming your way.

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      New Flickr Commons Set: Mary Agnes Chase Field Books

      • Date: March 22, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: A new set of Flickr Commons images from the field books of Mary Agnes Chase—a grass specialist, botanist, and suffragist.

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      Going Back to the Smithsonian’s Future

      • Date: February 8, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Today on The Bigger Picture, we are highlighting the anniversary of the 1927 Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian which brought together people from across the country – scientists, academics, politicians, and private citizens – to advise on the future role of the Smithsonian. For this, we bring you a piece from Smithsonian Archives Program Assistant Lisa Fthenakis,

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      Election Collection: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

      • Date: October 25, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In celebration of our friends at the National Archives’ #ElectionCollection campaign, we are sharing some unique photos of U.S. Presidents in our collection.

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      Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack

      • Date: March 17, 2011
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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      Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

      • Date: February 1, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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      Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

      • Date: February 22, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    19. Chemist Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895] sitting in lab. She was Director of the Cellulose Laboratories of the Chemical Foundation, at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York, doing pioneering work on cellulose synthesis and plastids. She was known for the use of photographs and motion pictures in her research.

      Hats Off to Women in Science!

      • Date: January 15, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A nod to the hats of women in science in honor of National Hat Day.

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      The Archives New Website and Blog!

      • Date: September 12, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Welcome to the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ new home on the web! Since joining the Archives, I’ve been impressed by the staff’s enthusiasm for the collections are custodians of, and their level of commitment to making the collections available and useful to researchers and enthusiasts.

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      2017 Top Blog Posts

      • Date: December 19, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: It's interesting to look back and see what resonated with you, our readers, this past year. Clearly, we along with many of you were fascinated by the solar eclipse of 2017 that was viewable from many parts of the U.S. Three of the top 10 were about solar eclipses. You also were captivated by our efforts to bring more attention to women in science. Three of the posts have to do

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