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  1. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: October 4, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  3. 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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  5. Rocket Row, Arts and Industries Building

    Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

    • Date: June 9, 2016
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: A before-and-after look at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Mall.

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  7. Design for National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2010.

    An Intern Learns from Those Who Came Before

    • Date: August 16, 2016
    • Description: A brief tale of a Smithsonian summer internship and the experience, knowledge, and change that ensued.

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  9. Takashi and Kumi Sugiura smile at one another as they hold up art and fabric.

    Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura

    • Date: May 5, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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  11. James Smithson as an Oxford Student, 1786, by James Roberts.

    James Smithson at Oxford

    • Date: September 12, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6861,size=300,right] Some students look forward eagerly to the new school year; others dread the end of summer and the long year ahead. How did the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson (1765-1829), feel about school? Smithson attended Oxford University in England from 1782 to 1786, receiving a Masters of Arts degree in chemistry and mineralogy.

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  13. It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours

    • Date: August 20, 2020
    • Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.

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    Watch Now: Today is Archives Fair

    • Date: October 19, 2012
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Tune into a live webcast of the Smithsonian's 2012 Archives Fair to watch the lecture series on "Revealing Hidden Treasures."

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  17. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

    Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

    • Date: December 10, 2019
    • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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  19. A Beaver Corral, Fried Owl, and Pueblos: Adventures with Vernon Orlando Bailey

    • Date: August 20, 2013
    • Description: Examination and conservation treatment of V.O. Bailey’s field book chronicling a 1906 expedition through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas.

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  21. 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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  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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