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      Too Many to Count

      • Date: September 24, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="320" caption="Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, c. 1890, Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] One of the things people often want to know about photography at the Smithsonian is, “How many photographs do you have?” with the quick follow-up, “Have you counted all of them?” No one knows for certain, but statistical sampling suggests

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      Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

      • Date: November 27, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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    5. A man sits at a desk on which large bones sit. An animal skeleton is hanging on the wall.

      The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 6, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

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      Chemists in the Collections

      • Date: January 27, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Today was the kickoff of the International Year of Chemistry 2011, and so we wanted to take the chance to introduce you to some of the chemists from our collections featured on the Smithsonian’s Flickr Commons. Our Flickr Commons sets are filled with photos both of chemistry greats that even the non-scientifically inclined among us celebrated in grade-school textbooks, and

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    9. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

      All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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    11. Bird observations recorded by Alexander Wetmore in Wisconsin, 1901.

      Alexander Wetmore: Observing the Making of a Scientist

      • Date: January 5, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: On National Bird Day, a look at the long and illustrious ornithology career of Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore.

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    13. Field Work and a World War

      • Date: July 12, 2012
      • Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.

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    15. Full Steam Ahead: The Motorcycle’s Bicycle Beginnings

      • Date: May 24, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the steam tricycle and other bicycle innovations during the turn of the 20th century.

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    17. Faded color map of the United States as it was in 1839.

      Pursuing Knowledge in Unfamiliar Country

      • Date: November 15, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: In mid-19th century America, some believed that world-class discoveries came exclusively from Europe. But early Smithsonian leaders had a sense of urgency to disseminate an authoritative body of knowledge, pursue further discoveries, and provide a deeper understanding to the public at a time when American society was changing.

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      The Mystery of the Art Room Frieze

      • Date: June 19, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9668,size=200,left]The Art Room, a greatly scaled down successor to the Smithsonian’s original 1857 Gallery of Art, is located on the second floor of the Smithsonian Building (the Castle). It was designed in 1899 by the architectural firm Hornblower and Marshall to house the Smithsonian’s collection of prints and drawings. When the room was first

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    21. Botanist Frederick Vernon Coville (1867-1937).

      Contagious Contributions: The Rewards of Asking for Help

      • Date: February 26, 2015
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Update on the continuing and growing contributions of volunteers at the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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      Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

      • Date: May 9, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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