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  1. A Pop-ular Analysis: Paul Allen and His Kernels

    • Date: December 13, 2012
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Paul Hamilton Allen, botanist, writes in his field book about testing different varieties of corn to determine which is the best for popcorn.

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    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: July 13, 2021
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    Play Our New Game! “The Mystery of the Megatherium Club: Mustaches & Mayhem”

    • Date: July 4, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We are pleased to launch a new live-play mystery based on the Megatherium Club, an actual group of young naturalists who lived in dormitories in the Smithsonian's Castle. Geared toward teen visitors (you must be 13 years or older to play), “The Mystery of the Megatherium Club: Mustaches & Mayhem” runs July 8th-Aug. 27th, with limited timeslots daily. Spend an hour with your

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  7. Two photographs of a man wearing a fur coat. The hood is on in the left photo.

    Smithsonian Collections, But Make It Fashion: An Archival Mystery Solved

    • Date: June 30, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: For Social Media Day, we’re recapping how a Facebook follower solved an archival mystery by giving a name to our most popular “unidentified male model.”

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  9. Museum specialist LaNelle Peterson with chameleon specimens at Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC) Navy Yard laboratory.

    Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)

    • Date: February 10, 2022
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Learn more about the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center and the impact this unit had in the study of marine science worldwide.

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    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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  13. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

    Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

    • Date: August 4, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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    Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

    • Date: May 18, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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  17. Caught on Film: Archives Fair 2012 Film Festival

    • Date: October 18, 2012
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s 2012 Archives Fair will feature a film festival this year where films fitting the theme “Hidden Treasures” will make their debut.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935

    • Date: July 24, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.

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  21. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

    Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

    • Date: August 17, 2021
    • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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  23. The World Is Yours: The Evolution of Life

    • Date: July 21, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “The Evolution of Life.”

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