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  1. Dorothea Dix: Mental Health Reformer and Civil War Nurse

    • Date: March 29, 2012
    • Description: A profile of Dorothea Dix, a Civil War nurse and advocate for the mentally ill.

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  3. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

    Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

    • Date: July 6, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    Mothers Day Inspiration

    • Date: May 9, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Get ready for Mother's Day with these images of Smithsonian staff and their families caring for young animals.

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  7. Front cover of an exhibition pamphlet. It has a brown-ish streak down the middle and a red cross at the top center.

    M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit

    • Date: July 30, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

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    Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse

    • Date: June 25, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.

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  11. A man and woman watch a small, orange monkey on a branch indoors. A carton of food is hanging on a branch.

    Going Wild with Golden Lion Tamarins

    • Date: July 25, 2019
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: In 1984, the National Zoo began reintroducing golden lion tamarins to the wild resulting in a conservation success.

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  13. Title and many subtitles about death of Hall in the New York Herald.

    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Potential Poison on the Polaris

    • Date: August 13, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: We thought our work was done when a social media follower helped us identify our popular “unidentified male model” as German naturalist Emil Bessels. Then we discovered he may have murdered his captain during the 1871–73 Polaris Expedition.

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  15. 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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    See Here: 6/2/2010

    • Date: June 2, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="439" caption="Bird storage on the third floor of the National Museum of Natural History on January 15, 1911, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79 Box 9 Folder 6, Negative Number: 24055."][/caption]

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    See Here: 4/15/2011

    • Date: April 15, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Deborah Bennett, museum technician, and Tim Coffer, data gatherer, sort trays of seashells for the mollusk inventory in the National Museum of Natural History's Division of Mollusks, October 1979, Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 2, Folder

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  21. Dog Days at the Zoo, Part II

    • Date: September 18, 2012
    • Description: Though often overlooked, dogs played a featured role in the early history of the National Zoological Park.

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  23. Hearing The World Is Yours

    • Date: May 14, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from an episode of The World Is Yours.

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