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    Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

    • Date: March 8, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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  3. Hallie Jenkins, Science Service Sales and Advertising Manager

    Science Service, Up Close: Hallie Jenkins, On the Road, On Her Own Terms

    • Date: March 16, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In January 1926, Science Service took a chance on smart, plucky Hallie Jenkins, hiring the 27-year-old as their sales representative. During the following months, Jenkins traveled on her own throughout the Midwest, selling science to newspapers large and small. By the end of the year, she become the organization’s sales and advertising manager.

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  5. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

    Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

    • Date: September 6, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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    See Here: 12/23/2010

    • Date: December 23, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Explorers of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition, Born in Greenland of a Danish missionary father and an Inuit mother, Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 1879-1933, was a Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist, who between 1921 and 1924, led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across arctic North America from

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  9. Colonel Orie W. Coyle Special Collection Photo

    Representation and Condensation

    • Date: July 30, 2013
    • Description: How can archivists of oral histories preserve a true-to-life picture of interviews?

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  11. The Hayden Surevy Group, 1887

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: May 2, 2017
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this spring by researchers at the Archives.

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  13. Page with a sketch of planets or a more general scene of space. The figures are labeled with letters.

    Link Love: 12/14/2018

    • Date: December 14, 2018
    • 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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  15. Travelog of 1962-1963 South American trip.

    Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge

    • Date: June 11, 2013
    • Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.

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    The man, the myth, the lens

    • Date: May 17, 2010
    • Creator: Susannah Wells
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_6524" align="alignright" width="220" caption="Linsey Scott, Intern, and Michael Barnes, Photographer, from the Center of Scientific Imaging and Photography stand in front of the freshly remounted world-record Black Marlin that was caught in 1953 using 130 pound test line by Alfred C. Glascock, Jr."][/caption] I had the recent opportunity to sit down

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    See Here: 10/14/2010

    • Date: October 14, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mrs. Walter (Joan) Mondale playing the drums after a press conference at the National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) with, (l-r), Rep. Lindy Boggs, Rep. Walter E. Fauntroy, Warren Robbins (founder of the Museum) and Sen. Wendell Anderson, 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian

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    See Here: 10/21/2010

    • Date: October 21, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="National Air and Space Museum's Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into Washington Dulles International Airport on November 16 atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier Aircraft, Using cranes, the Enterprise was removed from the top of the 747 and lowered to the tarmac at Dulles on November 17, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white

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    See Here: 3/23/2010

    • Date: March 23, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="436" caption="Clerks of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance occupying the Natural History Building, now the National Museum of Natural History. On the request of President Wilson, the Board of Regents closed the museum to the public on July 16, 1918, making available to the government the ground and two exhibition floors (138,600 sq.

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