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  1. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

    Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

    • Date: October 21, 2021
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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    Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist

    • Date: February 27, 2020
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.

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    See Here: 12/9/2010

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="380" caption="James Smithson bronze bust, commissioned by Paul E. Garber, historian emeritus at the National Air and Space Museum, made by sculptor Felix de Weldon, who stands next to it, De Weldon worked from an examination of Smithson's skull performed by Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, curator of Physical Anthropology in the National Museum

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  7. Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

    Understanding growth in insects: Dyar’s Law revisited

    • Date: March 21, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: How Smithsonian entomologist Harrison Dyar's field notes, now available on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, are improving present-day research done by Smithsonian Resident Research Associate Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay.

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  9. A woman wearing glasses and a denim jacket posed for a picture next to a computer screen. She has on hand on a computer mouse.

    Volunteer Appreciation: Marianne Green

    • Date: April 2, 2019
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.

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  11. Portrait of Carmichael. He is wearing a suit with a white handkerchief sticking out of the front pocket. He has a mustache. He is not smiling.

    Leonard Carmichael, Seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 7, 2022
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: Dr. Leonard Carmichael led the Smithsonian Institution through many changes during his tenure as the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian. He presided over new museums and facility openings, special acquisitions, and exciting exhibitions. Because Carmichael was hired from outside of the Smithsonian, he brought a new perspective, his academic background, and skills to thrust

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  13. Intro page, dated 1895, saying the report is attached.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: April 9, 2020
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    See Here: 5/7/2010

    • Date: May 7, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="The National Collection of Fine Arts, now the National Museum of American Art, exhibition "Art and Archeology of Viet-Nam" at the Natural History Building, October 27-December 8,1960, In this photograph taken on October 26,1960 at the opening reception for invited dignitaries, NCFA Director Thomas M. Beggs discusses

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    See Here: 4/27/2011

    • Date: April 27, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="286" caption="James Burford, Anthony Pineau, and Raymond Watson, On September 19, 1981, an ex-clerk with Smithsonian Museum shops, armed with a .25 caliber automatic pistol attempted to steal more than $2,500 from the National Museum of Natural History’s shop but was stopped by this trio, November 1981, by Jeffrey Ploskonka, Black and

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    See Here: 7/25/2011

    • Date: July 25, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Bill Withuhn (l.), deputy chairman of National Museum of American History's Science and Technology Department, in Annapolis, Maryland in July to greet captain and crew of a British Army sailing yacht carrying a 60 lb. iron plaque from the Ironbridge Gorge Museum in Shropshire for NMAH's transportation collections, 1986,

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  21. Link Love: 12/07/2018

    • Date: December 7, 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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  23. Cortege Bringing James Smithson Remains to Smithsonian, 1904, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 82-3337.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: October 9, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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