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  1. Observations taken from 9 p.m. August 3th to 2 a.m. August 9, 1872 in Holt County, Missouri, of an aurora. Detailed, timed observations on a single sized document in purple ink.

    The Increase and Diffusion of Data

    • Date: October 19, 2021
    • Description: Research has been at the core of Smithsonian’s mission from the beginning, and sharing that research—through activities like publishing papers and data—is still key to fulfilling that mission for the “increase and diffusion of knowledge.”

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    A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

    • Date: March 13, 2014
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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  5. Ice skaters on Rock Creek on the grounds of the National Zoological Park, c. 1905, Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collection, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. MAH-15760

    Hockey Weekend Across America

    • Date: February 27, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: To honor this year's Hockey Weekend Across America, we highlight some hockey related material from the Archives and the Smithsonian.

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  7. A man in a suit stands next to skeletal bones that are much larger than him.

    Link Love: 5/3/2019

    • Date: May 3, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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  9. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

    Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

    • Date: August 2, 2018
    • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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  11. Is that you, John Quincy Adams?

    • Date: February 20, 2012
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.

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    Roxie Laybourne: A Bird of Many Feathers

    • Date: March 24, 2016
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Roxie Laybourne, an Ornithologist who specialized in feather identification and pioneered the field of forensic ornithology.

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  15. Unknown Mill

    So, What is it?

    • Date: June 21, 2016
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: In the process of scanning glass plate negatives, how do we determine what each image is when it comes with so little information attached?

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  17. Giant Panda researcher Devra Kleiman records Hsing-Hsing's vocalizations.

    The Archival Legacy of Devra Kleiman

    • Date: May 25, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. The Statue of Freedom on display at the Arts and Industries Building. Other objects, like cannons and a spinning

    Archives Puzzles: Statue of Freedom

    • Date: November 2, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: 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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    African American Women Educators at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2016
    • Description: The contributions of African American women educators Tracy Carpenter, Louise Hutchinson, and Amina Dickerson to the Smithsonian.

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  23. Drawing of Cyproinoid with green, blue, orange, and yellow watercolors. Small labels are written in the corners of the paper.

    Archives Puzzles: Nineteenth-Century Watercolors

    • Date: July 12, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: 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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