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    Revisiting the Construction of the Freer Gallery of Art

    • Date: September 29, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Some new insights from the construction records of the Freer Gallery of Art, celebrating 100 years since groundbreaking.

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  3. The Smithsonian Goes Telephonic in 1878!

    • Date: June 28, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9592,size=200,left]Did you know the Smithsonian was an early adopter of the telephone? In June of 1878, a system of electronic bells and telephones was installed throughout the Smithsonian Castle. The system connected several workrooms and offices to provide instant communications within the building. At that time, there were only 187 telephone lines

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  5. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

    Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

    • Date: December 26, 2013
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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  7. An exhibit case, titled Soils and Fertilizers.

    Archives Puzzles: Giving the People What They Want...An Exhibit Case about Soils and Fertilizers...

    • Date: August 3, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This summer, have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  9. Screenshot of the Vaccines and US archived website that shows a banner noting it was archived August 5, 2021.

    Another Year of Collecting Online History

    • Date: March 31, 2022
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Changing museum hours and new websites meant another busy year for Smithsonian website archiving.

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  11. Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying

    • Date: August 2, 2012
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.

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  13. Link Love: 01/15/2021

    • Date: January 15, 2021
    • 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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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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  17. Blog Post

    Do you remember . . . ?

    • Date: August 26, 2010
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. Blog Post

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: December 27, 2016
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives Reference Team handles an average of around 6,000 queries per year, and if you us what people have been researching at the Archives recently, you'll get some pretty interesting responses. Although not comprehensive, here's a snapshot of the diverse range of information encompassed by the history of the world's largest museum complex!

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    When Lucy Met Bill: A Smithsonian “Meet-Cute”

    • Date: February 13, 2020
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: He said, “Have a chocolate. They’re good for librarians.” I said, “I’m not a librarian. I’m an editor.”

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  23. NBC news commentator Edwin Newman

    Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions

    • Date: July 19, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting

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