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    1. A Fish Story

      • Date: April 18, 2013
      • Creator: Ginger Yowell
      • Description: The United States Navy often consulted staff at the Smithsonian Institution when naming their submarines after fish.

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      Where’s Waldo . . . L. Schmitt?

      • Date: February 18, 2016
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.

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    5. Making sphagnum moss surgical dressings at one of the branch stations of the American Red Cross, Southsea, England, 1918.

      Fostering Collaboration for the Public Good: Sphagnum Moss and WWI

      • Date: May 23, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: A look at one of the many ways the Smithsonian’s mission to increase and diffuse knowledge brought scientific knowledge to aid the public good.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Up in the Air for a Solar Eclipse

      • Date: January 24, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On January 24, 1925, for the first time in over a century, a total solar eclipse would be visible across the northern part of the United States. How scientists used a dirigible to observe the phenomenon.

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    9. Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collections, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-4347.

      Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist

      • Date: January 14, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.

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    11. Portrait of Herman Henry Diebitsch

      Spotlight: Herman Henry Diebitsch and Josephine Diebitsch Peary

      • Date: June 24, 2021
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: We’re taking a closer look at Smithsonian clerk Herman Henry Diebitsch and his daughter, Arctic explorer Josephine Diebitsch Peary.

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      Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

      • Date: November 27, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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    15. Cover of sheet music for the Transit of Venus.

      Marching Our Way to the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 6, 2018
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Sure, you’ve heard of famed composer John Philip Sousa. But did you know that Sousa composed a march just for the Smithsonian?On November 6, 1854, the “March King” John Philip Sousa was born in Washington, D.C. With roots in Southeast Washington near the Marine Barracks, where his father played trombone in the United States Marine Band, it should have been of no surprise to

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    17. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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      A Ghost in the Archives: Robert Kennicott

      • Date: October 27, 2016
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: A spooky coincidence leads to a forgotten Robert Kennicott document in the Smithsonian Archives.

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    21. 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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      Ruel P. Tolman’s Images: Who Are You?

      • Date: January 12, 2012
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.

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