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  1. A screenshot of records management resources that many may find useful at ho

    Records Management Resources

    • Date: October 11, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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    Link Love: 7/27/2018

    • Date: July 27, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395259,size=200,center]Check out the nearly 700 newly-digitized images from the Smithsonian's National Zoo in 1973. [via Bigger Picture]Speaking of the zoo, cheetah cub overload! [via CBS]The Rocky Mountain National Park published over 210 recordings online including more than 60 bird species, natural soundscapes, and wildlife vocalizations including

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    The Archives’ Hidden Women

    • Date: March 15, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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    We Apologize For This Interruption in Service . . .

    • Date: November 20, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Pat Tilko Connects the World to the Smithsonian, 1994, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder July 1994, Negative Number: 94-6139-17A."][/caption] We just wanted to give our readers a head’s up that this weekend, there will be disruptions on the servers across

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  11. An L-shaped stacked stone and mortar house with a slate roof and white-painted sash windows sits amidst a grassy expanse. A lichen-covered stacked stone wall separates the front garden from pastureland.

    Walking in the Footsteps of Hungerfords

    • Date: September 15, 2022
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Readers of The Bigger Picture will be familiar with the Hungerford Deed, a 1787 property contract dividing a lucrative land inheritance between the mother and aunt of the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson. Over the last three years I have been able to take a deep dive into the content of the Deed and strengthen our understanding of Smithson’s choice to leave his

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  13. Leech jars, as seen at the New York Academy of Medicine. Courtesy of Nora Lockshin. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

    Leeches ’n Labels

    • Date: October 29, 2015
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Terrifying tips for marking on museum objects lurks within our annual Halloween themed post.

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    We Have New Tags!

    • Date: March 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="406" caption="Summer Youth Employment Program, July 1964, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Silver gelatin on cellulose acetate film sheet, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Call No.: AC0618.004.0001801."][/caption] You may have noticed that we have sorted out our tags

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  17. Chemist Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895] sitting in lab. She was Director of the Cellulose Laboratories of the Chemical Foundation, at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York, doing pioneering work on cellulose synthesis and plastids. She was known for the use of photographs and motion pictures in her research.

    Hats Off to Women in Science!

    • Date: January 15, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A nod to the hats of women in science in honor of National Hat Day.

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  19. It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours

    • Date: August 20, 2020
    • Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.

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    Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

    • Date: February 22, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    A Sense of Place

    • Date: February 24, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_11498" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="Out of The Depths, or, the Triumph of the Cross by Nellie Arnold Plummer. AHC 2003.0025.1, in its custom clamshell box after full conservation (inset: before treatment condition), Courtesy Nora Lockshin and Anacostia Community Museum."][/caption] The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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