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    1. 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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    3. "Open Wide!": Photographs of Dentists and Dental Researchers from the Science Service Collections

      • Date: October 10, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate National Dental Hygiene Month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents photographs of dentists and dental researchers.

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    5. 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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    7. Tweet from @jacobharris

      Hunting for Elephants in Archives

      • Date: February 17, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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    9. Happy National Chemistry Week!

      • Date: October 25, 2012
      • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
      • Description: Here are some of the scientific discoveries made while conserving Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments Book I on electromagnetism.

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    11. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

      Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

      • Date: November 14, 2013
      • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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    13. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

      Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

      • Date: December 26, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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    15. Link Love: 12/21/2018

      • Date: December 21, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    17. A woman in a long, strapless dress sits in a chair and looks upward. Eye masks hang on the wall behind her.

      Link Love: 11/16/2018

      • Date: November 16, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    19. Exhibit cases In a large hall. A hanging sign reads: “History of the United States.” Visible in the cases are busts, vases, models of sailboats.

      Archives Puzzles: HBD, AIB

      • Date: April 12, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each Monday, sit back, relax, and ease into the work week with puzzles created from images in our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse these images as part of Smithsonian Open Access, launched in 2020.In honor of the anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Arts and Industries Building, then known as the

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    21. Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum.

      Sneak Peek 8/5/2019

      • Date: August 5, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Smith Hempstone Oliver, associate curator in the Section of Land Transportation, poses with a Greene and Dyer monocycle in front of the United States National Museum, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-41054.

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    23. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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