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    Committees, Boards and Councils Records, 1953-1992

    • Date: 1953 1953-1992
    • Creator: National Museum of American History (U.S.) Office of the Director

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    Transparency in the Archives: From Our Earliest Days

    • Date: August 16, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: From the point in 1838 when the United States Congress accepted James Smithson’s bequest, it was recognized as a cultural resource, a public trust held by the federal government. Smithson had stipulated that the funds be used for an “establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge.” Being a cultural resource set aside for public use, the government bore the

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  5. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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    Smithsonian History

    • Date: February 28, 2011
    • Description: Resources and online exhibits on the history of the Smithsonian’s museums, research centers, and key events and people.

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    Governance & Organization

    • Date: October 2, 2017
    • Description: The Smithsonian was established in 1846 as a public trust by an act of Congress that also created a Board of Regents charged with establishing an institution “for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” Find out more about how the Smithsonian is organized and governed in the pages below.

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  11. Large opening at the excacvation site yielding an abundance of ammonium chloride, 1872. Record Unit 7000 - James Smithson Collection, 1796-1951, c. 1974, 1981-1983, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2009-0856.

    Smithsonian Backs Journey to the Center of the Earth

    • Date: April 1, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In 1864, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth sparked people’s imagination, but have you heard that before the novel was published, the Smithsonian attempted a journey of its own.

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    SIA Acc. T90039, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Department of National History, Records, 1956-1979

    • Date: 1956 1956-1979
    • Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Department of National History
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.

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  17. Laboratory Interior, Beaufort, 1904, by Unknown photographer.

    The Broad Mission of the Division of Inquiry

    • Date: January 26, 2012
    • Description: An examination of logbooks in the Smithsonian Institution Archives reveals the multiple ways that the Division of Inquiry in the United States Commission of Fish performed scientific work at marine laboratories in the early 20th century to fulfill their expansive mission statement.

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  19. SI History Chronology

    New York State Began Investigation of MAI

    • Date: May 1974

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    SIA RU000430, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Entomology, Chairmen's Records, circa 1963-1988, with related records from 1934

    • Date: 1934 1934-1988 circa 1963-1988, with related records from 1934
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  23. Letter - Mary Agnes Chase to Albert Spear Hitchcock, July 5, 1935.

    The Other Side of Mary Agnes Chase

    • Date: March 19, 2015
    • Description: Mary Agnes Chase is known for her extensive contributions to the study of grasses, but who was Mary Agnes Chase? Why is her private life so shrouded in mystery, and how can we find out more.

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