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  1. Spencer Fullerton Baird and Daughter Lucy in Woods Hole, Massachusetts

    Sneak Peek 8/8/2016

    • Date: August 8, 2016
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, and daughter, Lucy, in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, MAH-3461.

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  3. Creef Boatworks at Wanchese on Roanoke Island

    Sneak Peek 9/18/2017

    • Date: September 18, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Creef Boatworks at Wanchese on Roanoke Island, North Carolina, with shadboat builder George Washington Creef, MAH-4451.

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  5. Atatürk Bust, San Posta, 23 Temmuz 1931, SALT Research, https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/14482745040/.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A

    • Date: November 4, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and

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  7. Charles Eames sketch for carousel pavilion, Record Unit 99 - Office of the Secretary, Records, 1964-1971, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design + Archives = Eames and the Mall Carousel

    • Date: January 30, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: When Secretary Ripley commissioned Charles Eames to design a structure to enclose the carousel on the Mall.

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    See Here: 5/13/2010

    • Date: May 13, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Looking south from the corner of Pennsylvania Avenue and 11th Street, the silhouette of the Smithsonian Institution Building is seen in the distance, Above the first building to the right of 11th Street, the sign reads "Latimer & Cleary Auction and Commission Merchants", the next building has a sign "Star Buildings," and

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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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    What Smithsonian Animals Think of National Hug Day

    • Date: January 21, 2014
    • Description: Today is National Hug day! If you are feeling a little hug deprived don’t worry, we have scoured our collections to find you the best image of animals embracing the day.

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  15. Two-Year Old Boy Sitting in Basket 1909, NAA INV 06226600, Glass Negative, National Anthropological Archives.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2015 Ask an Archivist

    • Date: November 10, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Thursday, October 22nd, four of our archivists/conservators were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fifth year hosting

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    Let Freedom Ring?

    • Date: April 20, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_564" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Taft Voting, by Bain News Service, publisher, 1912, Library of Congress, LC-B2- 2442-16"][/caption] It’s against the law to photograph certain things, at certain times, in certain places. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently reported that a photograph of an election ballot in a mayoral race—showing the name

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    Road trip!

    • Date: June 29, 2011
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: It was July 1880 in Washington, DC and Smithsonian Secretary, Spencer Baird, had fled the city with his family for cool ocean breezes and to study the fishing grounds off the New England coast at Woods Hole on Cape Cod. For those left behind minding the Smithsonian Castle, it was probably hot, humid, and hellish in town and they were in need of relief. Luckily, the proprietors

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  21. Black and white portrait of woman.

    Cryptic Content in The Stacks

    • Date: December 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Collections here at the Archives span over 171 years of Smithsonian history and include personal papers of the many notable people who have been part of its work in science and culture. Cryptic and coded content is not unusual here. One would expect special vocabulary in the accessions of scientific observations. For example, notations of depth, temperature, and sounding and

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    See Here: 3/25/2011

    • Date: March 25, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="396" caption="Visitors, including children, are viewing entomology exhibits in the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, June 1954, by United States Department of Agriculture, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 44, Folder 10, Negative Number:

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