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  1. A person sits at a tables holding up a newspaper.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: October 1, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    SIA RU007292, Conger, Paul S (Paul Sydney) 1897-1979, Paul S. Conger Papers, 1913-1979

    • Date: 1913 1913-1979
    • Creator: Conger, Paul S. (Paul Sydney), 1897-1979
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Exploration of the Southern Continent

    • Date: April 4, 2017
    • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=150,left]Much of the Smithsonian's early natural history collections came from Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America. The fourth Annual Report (1850) discusses several Latin American expeditions, in particular the exploration of islands near Nicaragua by Ephraim G. Squier, who served as U.S. charge d'affaires

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    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    Henry's Science Gallery

    • Date: May 1, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Historic Pictures

    Mary Anna Henry Image Gallery

    • Date: September 21, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  13. Langley with His Aerodrome.

    Collegial, Yet Cautious: the Wright Brothers and Samuel P. Langley

    • Date: December 15, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: A look at the relationship between Smithsonian Secretary Samuel P. Langley and the Wright Brothers during the sometimes contentious race to achieve flight.

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  15. Diary, 1937, 1937, Smithsonian Field Book Project, SIA RU007293.

    Diary, 1937

    • Date: 1937 1937 1937

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  17. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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    SIA RU000325, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Echinoderms and Lower Invertebrates, Records, 1907-1982

    • Date: 1907 1907-1982
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Division of Echinoderms and Lower Invertebrates
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 05-113, Smithsonian Institution Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations, Project Files, 2000-2005

    • Date: 2000 2000-2005
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Facilities Engineering and Operations
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  23. U. S. National Museum log book of collecting trips for fossil cetaceans 1906

    U. S. National Museum log book of collecting trips for fossil cetaceans 1906

    • Date: 1906-1908 19060328 19080629

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