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  1. Fleeing from the ruined city--California St., from Stockton to Ferry Tower, San Francisco, California, 1906, photograph by Underwood & Underwood, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, neg. no. 13496.

    The Smithsonian Seismological Institute

    • Date: August 26, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian proposed creating a Seismological Institute after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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  3. A man sits at a desk with an open book.

    Science Service, Up Close: Two Haunting Portraits of Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley

    • Date: November 7, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A proud mother responded to news service’s request for a photograph of her physicist-son killed during World War I.

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  5. The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail

    • Date: June 1, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.

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  7. Suggestion submitted by W. G. Homer, Chief of the Cabinet Shop, to the Efficiency Awards Committee, dated September 20, 1951. Record Unit 50: Office of the Secretary, records, 1949-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Awarding Excellence

    • Date: April 9, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Another Miscellaneous Adventures explores the work of Smithsonian employees and the quest for their work to be awarded.

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    If a huge mass of garbage falls in the ocean and no one sees it, does it exist?

    • Date: May 22, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The first thing that I thought of when we started discussing our new call for entry, "seeing other worlds," was Google Earth. When Google Earth first came out in 2004, I remember the novelty of being able to zoom into my hometown to point out details to college friends, and having them pan across their own homes and favorite travel spots. We could travel across the globe

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  11. Cathedral?, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1963, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2015-003197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Where Was Watson?

    • Date: September 15, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Help the Smithsonian Institution Archives identify the locations of Watson Davis’s vacation photographs from August and September 1925.

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  13. It its collection, the National Museum of American History has a fallout shelter

    Link Love: 5/18/2012

    • Date: May 18, 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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  15. Photograph album of travel through Indonesia, 1930, by Alexander Archipenko, Alexander Archipenko papers, Archives of American Art, Digital ID: 13116.

    Everything you wanted to know about digitizing your photo album, but were afraid to ask!

    • Date: December 19, 2013
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Welcome to Throwback Thursday! This holiday season, I hope to inspire you to take a trip down memory lane to the land of erstwhile and bygone days of the family photo album. What better time to pull these one of a kind treasures off the shelves than during the family festivities! Recently over the Thanksgiving holiday, I rediscovered my own family’s quasi-prehistoric,

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  17. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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  19. The World Is Yours: Rockets and Planets

    • Date: February 18, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Rockets and Planets.”

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  21. Creating a barrier between the non-archival tube and the collections material.

    Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings

    • Date: December 13, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.

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    The Archives’ Video Digitization Equipment Gets an Upgrade

    • Date: April 2, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Archives recently upgraded its video digitization equipment to an open source, cost effective solution.

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