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    See Here: 11/11/2010

    • Date: November 11, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="A baby calf resting on the lawn of the South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building or "Castle," as part of the Department of Living Animals around 1887, Live animals were kept in the South Yard for exhibit and study by the taxidermists before the National Zoological Park was founded in 1889, 1887, by

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    See Here: 7/7/2010

    • Date: July 7, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Civil Works Administration Project workers construct a trail to the Bird House in the National Zoological Park in March 1934, The Bird House appears in background, Depression era programs allowed the Zoo to build and renovate many facilities, 1934, by E. Hardy, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record,

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  5. Washington Monument, c. 1920-1924, by Martin A. Gruber.

    Many Happy Returns to the Washington Monument!

    • Date: October 22, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The Washington Monument marks its 125th anniversary on October 9, 2013.

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  7. 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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  9. Mom, can we keep him? Ummm, no.

    • Date: January 15, 2013
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Robert F. Kennedy gave his children a sea lion named "Sandy" who was eventually donated to the National Zoological Park.

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  11.  View of a corner of an exhibit that features a bell and a wagon.

    Archives Puzzles: A Centennial Celebration

    • Date: July 5, 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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  13. Wishing you a Trivial New Year!

    • Date: January 4, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our

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  15. Field Work and a World War

    • Date: July 12, 2012
    • Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.

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    ‘Oh, I’m Glad That’s on the Mall’: NMAAHC Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

    • Date: September 23, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture marks its fifth anniversary.

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  19. Clipping from EBONY September 1990 issue, page 92 featuring photographs of people at the Field to Factory exhibit installation in Anchorage, Alaska.

    The Women Behind the "Field to Factory" Exhibition

    • Date: October 6, 2022
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Current headlines about war and the impact of forced migration on women are stark reminders of historic migrations and how women adapted and took on new roles.In 1987, Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915-1940 premiered at the National Museum of American History.

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    “Smithsonian Station”: The Metro Station that Almost Wasn’t

    • Date: July 5, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A station for the Metro, Washington DC’s subway system, was eliminated from early plans but protest by the Smithsonian ensured it would be built.

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    Introducing: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s Legacy

    • Date: August 10, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.

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