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  1. For all you merry pranksters

    • Date: April 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Happy April Fool's Day! Enjoy some tricks and pranks from the collections.

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  3. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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    See Here: 2/1/2011

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="A group of scientists leaves Barro Colorado Island in a small boat, during 1923, Smithsonian staff were in Panama with the Institute for Research in Tropical America, a group of private foundations and universities under the auspices of the National Research Council, who first established a research laboratory on Barro

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    See Here: 3/18/2010

    • Date: March 18, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Many scientists lived in the Smithsonian Institution Building in its early years. These four young naturalists lived in the building and often collected for the Smithsonian while on exploring expeditions in the mid-nineteenth century. Clockwise from upper left: Robert Kennicott, Henry Ulke, Henry Bryant and William

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    See Here: 10/15/2010

    • Date: October 15, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="412" caption="The cast of the television sitcom "All in the Family" came to the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, to donate Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs to the "A Nation of Nations" exhibit in September of 1978, (L-R): Jean Stapleton, Secretary (1964-1984) S. Dillon Ripley,

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    See Here: 10/26/2010

    • Date: October 26, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Enid A. Haupt (l.) and Lady Bird Johnson in the Enid A. Haupt Garden in the South Yard of the Castle, on their way to a celebration being held for Mrs. Johnson in the Arts and Industries Building, April 24, 1988, in honor of her 75th birthday, Mrs. Haupt, a New York philanthropist and noted supporter of horticultural

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    See Here: 3/17/2010

    • Date: March 17, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="This rare 1948 Tucker automobile was acquired by the National Museum of American History for its transportation collection. The car was designed by Preston Tucker, Alex Tremulis, and a team of stylists and engineers. It is one of only 51 such cars produced by Tucker Corporation before Preston Tucker became embroiled in

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    See Here: 3/24/2010

    • Date: March 24, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="The Smithsonian Institution Building seen from downtown Washington, D.C., from across The Mall, around 1855. In the foreground are construction materials along 15th Street, NW for the new wing added in 1855 to the Treasury Building. The Treasury building is the oldest departmental building in Washington, D.C.having been

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    See Here: 3/4/2010

    • Date: March 4, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="402" caption="Listening to the tape recorded description of the Falcon Guided Missile presented to the National Air Museum, now the National Air and Space Museum, by the Hughes Aircraft Company. L to R: Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who made the presentation; Brig. General Emmett F. Yost, Commander, 85th Air Division, Air Defense

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    See Here: 4/22/2011

    • Date: April 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    See Here: 5/12/2011

    • Date: May 12, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="The map shows the distribution of Smithsonian Correspondents throughout the world from the Smithsonian Institution Annual Report, 1895, the map is found after page 32, From its earliest years, the Institution maintained correspondence with scholars and volunteers who supported the work of the Smithsonian, by collecting

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    See Here: 5/19/2010

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="454" caption="At the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, 1904, Smithsonian Institution's United States National Museum exhibit includes the Langley Aerodrome, a model of a whale suspended from the ceiling, natural history exhibits, archaeological objects, and industrial machines, The Smithsonian coordinated all of the

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