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  1. Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes, June 1925.

    90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial

    • Date: July 9, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.

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  3. Here At The Smithsonian: Traveling Exhibitions

    • Date: November 30, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: As we close out this blog series, let’s take a look at two past traveling exhibitions.

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  5. Portrait of Thomas William Smillie

    Celebrating 120 Years of the Smithsonian’s Photographic History Collection

    • Date: July 14, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Did you know that the Smithsonian Institution has been collecting “specimens” related to the history of photography since photography was still considered a new technology? Learn about the evolution of our photography collection!

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  7. 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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  9. James T. Tanner's photographs of the ivory-billed woodpecker with guide

    Link Love: 5/11/2012

    • Date: May 11, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Louis R. Purnell

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Description: A twentieth century Renaissance man, Louis R. Purnell lived a remarkable life. His career began in the skies above Italy and Germany, where he flew 88 combat missions as an original member of the Tuskegee Airmen. After the war, while working at the National Museum of Natural History, he traveled the world’s oceans collecting marine specimens, taught himself geology and

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  13. Marble bust of a women.

    Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts

    • Date: August 8, 2019
    • Description: Learn about Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady, globetrotter, and founding donor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!

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  15. Stapled sheet of paper with a red and blue background and an image of a baseball player, wearing a Pirates jersey, kneeling with a baseball bat in the grass. The title on the page is

    I.D. This! Solid Ink Inkjet Print

    • Date: June 18, 2019
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Material and process identification is the key to a robust preservation strategy!

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  17. Document

    ColorOurCollection Book.pdf

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    • Takashi and Kumi Sugiura smile at one another as they hold up art and fabric.

      Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura

      • Date: May 5, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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      Smithsonian's Photo Summit

      • Date: October 12, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.

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      Link Love: 8/6/2010

      • Date: August 6, 2010
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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