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    See Here: 2/9/2010

    • Date: February 9, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="337" caption="An elaborately carved capital for one of the columns for the new United States National Museum building, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, while still in the workshop, c. 1905-1910, by Unknown photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder 3, Negative Number:

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    See Here: 3/18/2011

    • Date: March 18, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Henry Collins, on a field trip, probably to Florida, is aboard the United States Coast Guard cutter U.S.S. Boxer, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 9528, Box 1, Henry B. Collins, Jr., Oral History Interviews, Negative Number: SIA2009-2052."][/caption]

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    See Here: 3/30/2011

    • Date: March 30, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Groundbreaking of the new United States National Museum Building, now the National Museum of Natural History, took place on June 15, 1904, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 60, Folder: 5, Negative Number: SIA2009-2200."][/caption]

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    See Here: 3/31/2010

    • Date: March 31, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="420" caption="African American Laborers including Robert Campbell, Richard Hill, Rev. Bartlett L. Phillips, and Charles Washington are dressed in their white uniforms and worked at the United States National Museum, c. 1890, by T. W. Smillie, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 28, Folder 34, Negative

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    See Here: 3/7/2011

    • Date: March 7, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Anthropology Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, The front exhibit case, which was part of the Polynesian ethnology exhibit, shows a life group of indigenous people of the Samoan Indian group with native artifacts, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic

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    See Here: 4/11/2011

    • Date: April 11, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Print of the original architectural drawing of the National Museum of Natural History Building, originally known as the United States National Museum Building, Drawn by architects Hornblower and Marshall in 1906 in black and red ink pen on cloth, 1906, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 000092, Box CGMC, Folder

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    See Here: 4/6/2011

    • Date: April 6, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), North Entrance Lobby (Foyer), looking west, soon after the building was completed, c. 1911, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 79, Box 9, Folder 1,

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    See Here: 5/16/2011

    • Date: May 16, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="307" caption="Wilhelm Carl Paul Gottlieb Heinrich (1880-1955) in 1913 joined the United States Department of Agriculture, He first worked on applied entomology but later switched to the classification of Lepidoptera, c. 1940, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7427, Box 1,

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    See Here: 1/26/2011

    • Date: January 26, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore

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  19. Portrait of George Tsaroff at age 15

    Spotlight: George Tsaroff

    • Date: September 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This blog post was edited in October 2021 for clarification. While surveying and collecting specimens in the Aleutian Islands in 1871-1872 for the United States Coast Survey, later renamed the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, naturalist William Healey Dall befriended George Tsaroff (1858-1880), an Unangan (Aleut) teen from Unalaska Island who had been hired as local

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    Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

    • Date: October 9, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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  23. Portrait of William Jervis Hough, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1845-1847, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2002-32241.

    Legislative Logjam to Kitchen Sink

    • Date: May 22, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In the spring of 1846, after years of debate, the legislative logjam over what the Smithsonian would be was finally broken with compromise legislation by New York Congressman, William Jervis Hough.

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