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  1. Visitors viewing transparent woman at the opening of the Hall of Health

    The Hall of Health and the Exhibits Modernization Program

    • Date: December 15, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In the 1950s US National Museum staff revitalized exhibits across the Smithsonian, completely transforming the Arts & Industries Building.

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  3. An American bison stands in the snow. It looks toward the camera.

    Serendipity and Unexpected Connections

    • Date: April 23, 2020
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”

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    “A Wildlife Paradise”: International Collaboration on the DMZ Ecology in the 1960s

    • Date: November 12, 2019
    • Description: The DMZ ecology project reveals the Smithsonian’s commitment to ecological research programs as well as the complexity and contingency of an international collaboration.

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  7. This is the AV equipment that we have here at the Archives which we make available to other units who may need it.

    The Power of Collaboration

    • Date: October 21, 2014
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Audiovisual archivists come together at the annual meeting of the Association of Moving Image Archivists to create tools for audiovisual conservation.

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  9. Record Player, National Museum of American History, 1986.3096.27.

    There Are Records and Then There Are Records

    • Date: April 12, 2016
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Records, not to be confused with albums, are defined as information created or received during the course of business.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”

    • Date: June 13, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.

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  13. Uniformed Letter Carrier with Child in Mailbag, Unidentified photographer

    Top 10 Photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons

    • Date: July 3, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A profile of the top ten photos on the Smithsonian Flickr Commmons—from scientists to babies sent in the mail.

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  15. Photo of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

    Link Love: 7/17/2015

    • Date: July 17, 2015
    • 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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  17. Text written letter on white paper.

    Miscellaneous Adventures into Standard Forms at the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 5, 2017
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: For the next installment of “Miscellaneous Adventures,” we’ve taken a dive into blank standardized forms once used at the Smithsonian, found in Record Unit 65, Smithsonian Institution Chief Clerk, Forms, Circulars, Announcements, 1846-1933, Box 14, Folder Miscellaneous Forms – Assorted. And these forms are certainly assorted! The contents range from memorandum forms to

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  19. Brigadier General Adolphus Washington Greely

    Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

    • Date: August 2, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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    Are You There?

    • Date: July 29, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="The Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, from "Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem" Portfolio, 1858, Francis Frith"][/caption] The first examples of travel photography are almost simultaneous with the invention of photography itself. In 1841, following an extensive trip through the Middle East, wine merchant and early photographer,

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  23. Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

    Understanding growth in insects: Dyar’s Law revisited

    • Date: March 21, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: How Smithsonian entomologist Harrison Dyar's field notes, now available on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, are improving present-day research done by Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

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