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    “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered

    • Date: March 27, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Elizabeth Tashjiaan, American painter, 1912-2007, Smithsonian American Art Museum"][/caption]Looking at this photo of artist Elizabeth Tashjian in our new set of portraits of women artists at the Smithsonian Commons on Flickr, it seemed obvious to me that I was looking at a professionally-trained artist, who in fact, won

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  3. Screenshot of a Twitter thread about a DC Alliance for Response workshop.

    Pandemic Tests Preparedness

    • Date: September 3, 2020
    • Description: This National Preparedness Month, collections care professionals might consider joining their local Alliance for Response initiative to improve their organizations, practices, and programs.

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  5. Exterior of the original Corcoran Gallery of Art (now Renwick Gallery) designed by architect James Renwick, Jr. The c. 1930s image shows the building when it served as the U.S. Court of Claims.

    Revisiting Renwick

    • Date: January 27, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: While closed for renovations, here is a look at some historic images of the Renwick Gallery on the anniversary of its opening to the public.

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  7. Five Smithsonian employees provide answers to the question: What is your family’s signature Thanksgiving dish?

    The Smithsonian Point of View: Pumpkin Pie, Pez, and Pastrami

    • Date: November 28, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.

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  9. Word processor,

    Technology Throwback Thursday: Snail Mail and Word Processors

    • Date: July 10, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A brief look at the evolution of public inquiries at the Smithsonian.

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  11. Flickr user Penny Richards helps identify image.

    Un-Locke the Mystery

    • Date: March 13, 2012
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: Even with help from the dedicated Flickr Commons community, there are still many more images to identify in the Ruel Pardee Tolman Flickr set.

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    Wish You Were Here?

    • Date: December 1, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3071" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Spiral Galaxy Messier 81 (M81), 2003, Spitzer Space Telescope / IRAC, NASA / JPL-Caltech / S. Willner, Harvard-Smithsonian CfA"][/caption] You may in fact be, or just feel like, a big shot down here on earth. But, ever since airborne cameras started to photograph our little planet from above, and once they

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  15. The “Et” origins are visible. Black background. White glyph.

    & is for Ampersand

    • Date: September 8, 2020
    • Description: Today we honor the glyph with an incredibly long name that used to shorten an incredibly short word.

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    The Billionaire Club . . .

    • Date: December 22, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3314" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Looking, May 2009, by Karthick Ramalingam, Digital photograph, Pentax K200D, www.makkaphotography.com, © Karthick Ramalingam."][/caption] What photography is, how it works, and the ways it has become indispensable in our lives are difficult to pin down. The medium itself keeps changing and trying to figure

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    Can Buildings Stack Up to the Images Made of Them?

    • Date: November 18, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3043" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photograph of the Ames Monument, Wyoming, courtesy Phil Patton."][/caption] Looking at an illustrated real estate listing or brochure, have you ever been mesmerized by a wide angle and luxurious photograph of what you suspect is, in fact, a tiny studio apartment? Have you ever had the experience where all

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  21. The damaged nudibranch field book

    Coming Soon to the Transcription Center: Department of Invertebrate Zoology

    • Date: November 15, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See what’s in store for the Transcription Center from the invertebrate zoology collections!

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    Lost and Found

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7871" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="A rendering of the AT&T Building, now the SONY Building, in New York, recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum from a newly discovered cache of material from the Philip Johnson’s architectural practice. Photo courtesy Capelin Communications.

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