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    Smithsonian Gardens

    • Date: September 4, 2018
    • Description: During debates about the Smithsonian’s founding, the idea of using James Smithson’s bequest for a botanic garden was included in several drafts of the bill considered by Congress. In 1850, President Millard Fillmore commissioned America’s preeminent landscape designer Andrew Jackson Downing to design plans for the National Mall, including grounds around the Smithsonian Castle,

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  3. Cape Buffalo at National Zoological Park

    Where the Wild Things Are

    • Date: July 26, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Take a look at the residents of the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973 with these newly digitized images.

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  5. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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  7. 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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  9. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

    • Date: July 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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  11. Summer In The City

    • Date: June 27, 2017
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: A before-and-after look at the the entrances and rotundas around the Smithsonian.

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  13. Promotional black and white photograph of The Beatles, c. 1964, as seen in even, non-raking visible light. Courtesy of E. Keats Webb, Museum Conservation Institute. Accession 2014.02 - Harry Lynn Collection, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

    But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?

    • Date: April 29, 2014
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.

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  15. Slight damage on a piece of paper. There is a section of brown, dotted coloring on the parchment.

    I.D. This! Parchment

    • Date: November 21, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: For the next installment in our I.D. This! series, learn about parchment and how we identify it in our collections.

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    Email Preservation - Collaborative Electronic Records Project

    • Date: April 26, 2017
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives has led and collaborated on the earliest efforts in the field of email preservation since the mid-2000s. A look at our Collaborative Electronic Records Project (CERP) tool.

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    Earthquakes

    • Date: March 21, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Front Cover of the Cosmos Club Bulletin, April 1967, Vol. 20, No. 4.

    The Miscellaneous Materials of Oscar Cartwright

    • Date: May 30, 2017
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures dives into the Oscar L. Cartwright Papers and materials from Washington D.C.'s Cosmos Club.

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  23. The “Et” origins are visible. Black background. White glyph.

    & is for Ampersand

    • Date: September 8, 2020
    • Description: Today we honor the glyph with an incredibly long name that used to shorten an incredibly short word.

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