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    See Here: 5/20/2010

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Women employees in the Telephone and Telegraph Office which was located in the North Tower of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, from the time the building was opened in 1881, Through the window is the Syrian Sarcophagus brought to the United States in 1837 and intended for Andrew

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    See Here: 5/27/2011

    • Date: May 27, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="333" caption="Bureau flags were designed for all the Smithsonian bureaus for the celebration of the bicentennial of James Smithson's birth. The thirteen individual banners were all similar except for the design of the canton in the upper left corner, All have a blue field with gold fringe on the upper, lower, and right sides, 1971,

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    See Here: 5/31/2010

    • Date: May 31, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="South facade of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), the Castle, after completion, is dominated by a massive, square battlemented central tower with an attached octagonal stair tower rising well above it, Constructed in red sandstone quarried in Seneca, Maryland, the building was unique not only in style but in

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    See Here: 5/6/2010

    • Date: May 6, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Group photograph of Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory employees, including Florence Meier Chase, fifth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1928-1944) Charles Greeley Abbot (second from the left), M. Agnes Neill, Earl S. Johnston, Robert Weintraub, Anne Lucka, William Hoover, Edward D. McAlister, and unidentified

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    See Here: 5/9/2011

    • Date: May 9, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Foster Henderson Benjamin (1895-1936), lepidopterist, was with the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, There he assisted in the investigations of the Mexican (Texas, 1927) and Mediterranean (Florida, 1929) fruit flies, c. 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Sepia photographic print, Smithsonian

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    See Here: 7/28/2010

    • Date: July 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="365" caption="At the end of the three-story high concourse in the Smithsonian Institutions underground complex is an illusionist mural by Richard Haas, The mural depicts through ancient stone arches the Arts and Industries Building and the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, both located above ground, adjacent to the

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    See Here: 8/18/2010

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="The Division of Radiation and Organisms, located in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building (SIB), Shown here is apparatus for studying phototropism (bending toward light) of seedlings, in connection with experiments to determine effects of wave lengths of light on growth, Date unknown, by Unidentified

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    See Here: 9/28/2010

    • Date: September 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Ray Dudley, assistant grounds foreman in the Office of Horticulture, gives some Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center pre-schoolers the word on the trees and plants in their playground, He also gave the kids some safety tips--including a warning not to eat holly berries, 1989, by Rick Vargas, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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    See Here: 12/7/2009

    • Date: December 7, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="313" caption="Franklin Printing Press, Date unknown, Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285 Box 17 Folder 3, Negative Number:17539-B."][/caption]

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    Archives on View: National Portrait Gallery’s 50th Anniversary Exhibition

    • Date: September 7, 2017
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (NPG) will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2018. Ahead of next year’s festivities, NPG unveiled an exhibition commemorating its May 1968 opening. The Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) provided several pieces for this gallery, including a photo of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication speech on May 3rd. Check out the full

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    See Here: 1/27/2010

    • Date: January 27, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Passenger pigeon group exhibit in Bird Hall in the National Museum of Natural History after the Exhibits Modernization Program, 1956, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 44 Folder 5, Negative number:

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    See Here: 12/8/2009

    • Date: December 8, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="393" caption="Taxidermists Mounting Hippopotamus, 1930s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Box 1: Watson M. Perrygo Oral History Interviews, Negative Number:MAH 11087-A."][/caption]

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