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  1. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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    Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

    • Date: February 22, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    William Stimpson and the Smithsonian’s First Aquarium

    • Date: July 14, 2015
    • Description: William Stimpson and the first aquarium at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

    • Date: December 17, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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  9. October 3, 1958 Memorandum from J. Allen Hynek to Satellite Tracking Program Staff on the first anniversary of Sputnik, page 1.

    Right Places at the Right Time

    • Date: October 21, 2013
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: Recollections of the October 4, 1957, Sputnik I launch and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Satellite Tracking Program.

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  11. A woman wearing gloves holds up a pair of boots. A man in the background is near a shelf of objects.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jennifer Locke Jones

    • Date: April 1, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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  13. GIF of someone navigating the introduction page of the web exhibition. It includes a graphic of photographs of people in black-and-white and a portrait painting of James Smithsonian in color.

    Introducing Smithson to Smithsonian

    • Date: August 10, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As the Smithsonian geared up to celebrate its 175th anniversary, the Libraries and Archives decided to revisit the online exhibition From Smithsonian to Smithsonian, created a quarter of a century ago. Today, on the Smithsonian’s birthday, we are pleased to celebrate the launch of a new, refreshed and greatly expanded web exhibition, Smithson to Smithsonian.

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  15. A woman interviewing a man at a table with a recorder in between them.

    Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 6, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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  17. 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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  19. Suggestion submitted by W. G. Homer, Chief of the Cabinet Shop, to the Efficiency Awards Committee, dated September 20, 1951. Record Unit 50: Office of the Secretary, records, 1949-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Awarding Excellence

    • Date: April 9, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Another Miscellaneous Adventures explores the work of Smithsonian employees and the quest for their work to be awarded.

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  21. “The Proper Thing to Do": James Smithson’s Journey to Washington

    • Date: June 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On the 190th anniversary of the death of Smithsonian founding donor James Smithson, we’re taking a look back at his posthumous journey, led by Alexander Graham Bell, to his final resting place in Washington, D.C.

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  23. 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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