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    1. The Secret Treasure Vault that Might Have Been

      • Date: September 20, 2012
      • Description: During World War II, a plan to build a secret collections vault under a memorial to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Washington, DC.

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    3. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

      • Date: May 12, 2022
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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    5. The first page of Margaret S. Collins’ memorial service pamphlet.

      A Legend in Termite Field Biology

      • Date: March 2, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.

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    7. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

      Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

      • Date: March 5, 2020
      • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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      Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

      • Date: December 6, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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      The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 9, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific

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      The Star Spangled Banner, an American Icon

      • Date: July 4, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Happy Fourth of July! On Independence Day, flags are flown across the nation. The Smithsonian has many versions of the American flag in its collections, the best known being the Star Spangled Banner. But, do you know its history, and how it came to the Smithsonian? The Star Spangled Banner is a huge 15-star, 15-stripe garrison flag, 30 feet by 42 feet, made in 1813 by Mary

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      Science Sits for Art

      • Date: April 29, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Heads and Fragments of Heads of Humeri, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, 1865, by William Bell, Albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen

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      The Smithsonian’s First Garden

      • Date: May 31, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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    19. Barn owls, named 'Increase' and 'Diffusion,' living in the West Tower.

      Residents of a Different Feather

      • Date: April 24, 2012
      • Description: History of the many barn owls who have lived in the towers of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle."

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    21. Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn

      • Date: July 25, 2013
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”

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      Snapshots of Transition: Native American Reservation Life in the Early 1900s

      • Date: November 17, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="In this photo Reverend James O. Arthur poses on a sand dune at White Sands, New Mexico. Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Catalog number: N53381."][/caption] This is the first entry in a series celebrating National Native American Heritage Month. In this series we will be highlighting photos from the

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