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  1. B&W photograph of Island with markers showing Eniwetok and Perry Islands

    Travel to the Tropics, Archives-style!

    • Date: January 30, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Travel with us to the Galapagos and the Marshall Islands as we launch some warm-weather scientific field books, diaries, and correspondence. While it’s not very wintery in Washington D.C., we’re hoping this will offer an escape to those entering the long remaining months of snow, sleet, and ice. And if you’re avoiding the cold, what a better way to spend your time than helping

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  3. Science Service biology editor Frank Thone (1891-1949), mid-1940s, by Fremont Davis. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2009-4197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Laughing All the Way

    • Date: April 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Humor and its manifestation at Science Service.

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  5. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

    The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

    • Date: July 16, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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  7. Design for National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2010.

    An Intern Learns from Those Who Came Before

    • Date: August 16, 2016
    • Description: A brief tale of a Smithsonian summer internship and the experience, knowledge, and change that ensued.

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  9. Scan of a black and white forest fire prevention poster featuring the head of Smokey the Bear

    Bearly Survived to become an Icon

    • Date: May 27, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the

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  11. Tweet from @jacobharris

    Hunting for Elephants in Archives

    • Date: February 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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    Keeping Organized for a Less Stressful Tax Season

    • Date: April 26, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Taxes, by Mat Honan, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] Chances are that, if you live in the United States, you've recently filed your taxes. For most, filing tax returns is a dreaded task, even when you expect a refund. Doing taxes requires a lot of time and energy, and often results in some

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    Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

    • Date: April 28, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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  17. Camping Out, Smithsonian-Style

    • Date: June 10, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how Smithsonian scientists have always been willing to do what is needed to further their research—including camping in all conditions!

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  19. Tweet sent by Jacob Harris, 11/12/2014.

    How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant

    • Date: January 6, 2015
    • Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how

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  21. Smithson’s Crypt in Genoa, Italy, Prematio Studio Fotographico (Genova, Italy), 1897, Smithsonian Institution Archives, negative # 82-3195.

    Happy Birth Year, Mr. Smithson

    • Date: November 17, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: 2015 is the 250th anniversary of James Smithson’s birth. Although we don’t know the day of his birth, this year we are celebrating his birthday.

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  23. Ruth M. Blackwelder sitting in a chair, taken by Richard E. Blackwelder. Accession 96-099: Richard E. Blackwelder Papers, 1926-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-002961.

    Who Was Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder?

    • Date: March 5, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Mystery who Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder may be solved once her journals go up on the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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