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    Explore the Arctic with Operation Windmill

    • Date: January 28, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: View amazing photos from Operation Windmill, a surveying expedition of Antarctica conducted by the US Navy in 1947-48.

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  3. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

    The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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  5. An advertisement for packaged air featured in Life Magazine, January 24, 1944.

    Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning

    • Date: June 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.

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  7. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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