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  1. Eucosma ragonoti barnesiana Dyar, 1903, Collected by Harrison G. Dyar, National Museum of Natural History.

    The Impossible Case of Harrison G. Dyar

    • Date: May 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Starting tomorrow through next week, we will be digging into the life of entomologist Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929). Dyar was honorary custodian of the Smithsonian's United States National Museum's collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies, moths, etc.) for more than thirty years. As a scientist, Dyar was noted for his work concerning mosquito-borne diseases. He also developed a

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    New Donation of Scopes Trial Photos to the Smithsonian Archives

    • Date: February 3, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    New Identification of Scopes Trial Photos—Thanks to You!

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

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  7. Staff of the Bureau of International Exchanges, 1891.

    The Poetry of Solomon Brown

    • Date: April 19, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate National Poetry Month with a look at one of the Smithsonian’s resident poets, Solomon G. Brown.

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    The Smithsonian Sent Healing Wheels to WWI

    • Date: June 21, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: One of the challenges of being a reference archivist is focusing on the inquiries received, while suppressing the bits of information you come across that may be of personal interest (the corner of my desk is occupied by an ever increasing list of topics I aspire to research further on my own time). Recently, however, a colleague who is familiar with my interest in rare and

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  11. Ruth M. Blackwelder sitting in a chair, taken by Richard E. Blackwelder. Accession 96-099: Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-002961.

    Who Was Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder?

    • Date: March 5, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Mystery who Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder may be solved once her journals go up on the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s

    • Date: August 25, 2010
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How

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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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    Art and Photography at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 4, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Washington, D.C. 1975, from the series Archaeological Series, 6 Inch Contour Gauge, 1975, by Kenneth Josephson, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.828."][/caption] In 1981, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (at the time it was named

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    Art On Message

    • Date: February 25, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="Georgia O'Keeffe, 1920, by Alfred Stieglitz, Photographic print, Archives of American Art, Local Number: AAA 440 (fr. 508)."][/caption] I confess, way back when as a student of American Modernism, I was never much interested in Georgia O’Keeffe. I was supposed to be. She was the lone, out-there, woman painter of America;

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    Digitized Photos and Back Stories

    • Date: October 22, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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    The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

    • Date: September 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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