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    Who we think we might be

    • Date: April 15, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

    Board of Regents: Providing Guidance to the Stewards of the National Collections

    • Date: September 8, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: With the help of digital volunteers, we will make over a century’s worth of Smithsonian Board of Regents Meeting Minutes searchable, via the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    Bruff’s Artistic Code Cracked by Clever Collaborators

    • Date: December 28, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research, including a translated rebus letter.

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    It Pays to Be Free

    • Date: March 25, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Bus Seats, by Adam Gerard, Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic License"][/caption] I took a stroll at lunch today since it’s that time of year again when the magnolia trees bloom in the Smithsonian Castle’s Enid Haupt Garden. It’s important to catch it before a rain or a big breeze snatches

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    Live Webcast Today, 10:30 am, "Linked Open Data in Libraries, Museums, & Archives"

    • Date: September 16, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    The Mercury's Rising. Again.

    • Date: May 30, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="This image from Mercury mission number four taken on Sept. 13, 1961 is just one of the many images that was written on by engineers. Credit: NASA/JSC/Arizona State University."][/caption] On May 16th, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral to watch the Endeavor, the NASA space shuttle,

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    New Scopes Trial Photos on the Flickr Commons

    • Date: July 8, 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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  15. A note written by naturalist Nora F. McMillan, found in the diaries of Arthur W. Stelfox.

    Nora McMillan and Annotating Stelfox

    • Date: March 23, 2017
    • Description: More than two dozen field diaries by Irish naturalist Arthur Stelfox are housed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives--what a note left inside one field notebook tells us about his network of scientist colleagues.

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    Photos Can Turn Down the Heat

    • Date: October 20, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Natural Gas Fracing, by Melissa Peffs."][/caption] Photography is valued for, among other things, seeing what the human eye cannot. From medical scans to red light cameras to artworks made by image makers offering up new perspectives, photography reminds us that there’s always more to observe than we’re physically able to

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  19. Registrar Cordelia Rose added personal and humorous details to the scroll as the automation of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum registration process progressed. This photograph, placed near the end of the scroll, depicts programmer Jay Vanatta walking away and a thought bubble noting

    "Scrolling" Through Museum Processes

    • Date: September 12, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Two almost forgotten scrolls document the automation of museum processes at the Cooper-Hewitt.

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    Slowly (the photographs) turn…

    • Date: April 8, 2010
    • Description: Like Lou Costello or Mo of the Three Stooges whenever I hear the name “Niagara Falls” I pause and take a turn. One turn is to, of course, remember the classic comedy routine (when I was growing up it seemed to play on TV all the time) that involves the interactions between a once prosperous and educated bum and an unsuspecting citizen who doesn’t have a clue about the

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    Upon Closer Inspection . . .

    • Date: December 9, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3532" align="aligncenter" width="220" caption="Lorgnette Humaine, Scan from The English Mechanic, 1897 drawing of an invention using X-Rays to scan luggage, courtesy of Flickr user Mark Wahl, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A week or so ago, shoes off and stuck in the slow moving security check line at an airport, I became fixated as I

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