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  1. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

    “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

    • Date: March 13, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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    And the Winner Is . . . Photography!

    • Date: October 9, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2474" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Silicon Eye, from the inner core.... the 5 Megapixel CCD sensor that electronically captures the image, by Flickr user jurvetson."][/caption] The Nobel Prize jury recently announced three winners in physics, who’ve been dubbed "the masters of light" for their innovations in the ways photographic images are

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  5. The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life

    • Date: July 21, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”

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  7. Photo of book spine

    Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

    • Date: August 16, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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  9. The Mars Rover Spirit took this sublime view of a sunset over the rim of Gusev Crater, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) away. Taken from Husband Hill, it looks much like a sunset on Earth—a reminder that other worlds can seem eerily familiar. Sunset and twilight images help scientists to determine how high into the atmosphere the Martian dust extends and to look for dust or ice clouds. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Texas A&M/Cornell.

    Link Love: 1/10/2014

    • Date: January 10, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • 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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  11. A woman in a white polo holds up a certificate that reads:

    Women in the Office of Protection Services

    • Date: March 12, 2019
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.

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  13. Dawrin letter

    I Read Dead People’s Mail: Mysteries of the Darwin Letter

    • Date: June 28, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: How a 30-year old theft was solved, but one mystery remained.

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  15. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

    The History of Email at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 21, 2015
    • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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  17. 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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  19. 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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  21. 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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  23. 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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