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  1. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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  3. China Ligantissima?, Mollusk Illustration, August 2, 1866

    William H. Dall: He had Malacology Down to an Art

    • Date: August 16, 2012
    • Description: Explorer, Biologist, and former Smithsonian employee, William Healey Dall, also had artistic talent.

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  5. Letter to R. Edward Earll instructing him to retrieve the dagger belonging to the Leif Erikson statue from the Superintendent of the Women’s Building, written on United States National Museum letterhead.

    Digitization and Exploration: An Intern Works with the Exposition Records

    • Date: December 10, 2020
    • Description: Learn about the digitization process and some fun Smithsonian history from a fall internship project!

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  7. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

    • Date: April 12, 2018
    • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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  9. A photo slide of a man sitting at a desk.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: January 12, 2021
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  11. 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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  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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  15. Robert Ridgway Bird Head Drawing #121, 1870s; Drawing

    Open Access: Put a Bird On It

    • Date: February 24, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: In alignment with SI's newly launched Smithsonian Open Access, Smithsonian Institution Archives has designated over 2000 items as open access!

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  17. 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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    Save the Silver!

    • Date: September 4, 2012
    • Description: During the Civil War, Solomon G. Brown protected valuables from the approaching Confederate Army.

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  21. 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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  23. John Adams

    A Founding Father's Day

    • Date: June 16, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A closer look at Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams, and the father-son duo's relationship to the Smithsonian.

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