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  1. Two men in robes and a woman in a hat stand in a group outdoors.

    The Hirshhorn Adventures: A Museum for the Mall

    • Date: December 11, 2018
    • Description: The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden has been located on the National Mall since 1974, but before that, Joseph and Olga Hirshhorn spent years considering which city or country the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden would call home.

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  3. Map of expedition sites in Sumatra, 1901

    The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Astronomers Often Go Awry: The 1901 Sumatra Eclipse Expedition

    • Date: August 17, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Astronomers travel far and wide to see solar eclipses but sometimes their best laid plans don’t work out..

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    Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers

    • Date: July 28, 2011
    • Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of

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  7. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  9. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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    Perspectives

    • Date: February 8, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    What are You Watching?

    • Date: August 22, 2013
    • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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  15. Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.

    Alice Paul Memorial March

    • Date: March 26, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.

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  17. Promotional black and white photograph of The Beatles, c. 1964, as seen in even, non-raking visible light. Courtesy of E. Keats Webb, Museum Conservation Institute. Accession 2014.02 - Harry Lynn Collection, Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington.

    But all I've got is a photograph . . . or an autograph?

    • Date: April 29, 2014
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Watch how we make invisible Beatles’ autographs visible with Reflectance Transform Imaging, a technique for forensic document examination.

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    Avatar. A Photographic Game-Changer?

    • Date: January 20, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: A few days ago, I went to an IMAX 3D showing of Avatar to see for myself if the movie is a “game-changer,” as many have suggested. And, it is, but in a way no one seems to be focusing on—the way it acknowledges and exploits photography’s power to shape both everyday and alternate realities. What struck me, as soon as the movie started, was how sophisticated the film’s

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  21. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

    Celebrating National Radio Day

    • Date: August 18, 2022
    • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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  23. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

    • Date: July 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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