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    1. An image from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories website showing Barro Colorado Island an the location of the 50-ha plot and a visualization of data collected by the Forest Dynamics Project.

      How to Fit a Forest in Five Boxes

      • Date: February 11, 2014
      • Description: Field maps illuminate the origins of the Smithsonian’s long-term forest-monitoring project.

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    3. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

      • Date: June 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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    5. Illustration that takes up the whole page of Megarhinus septentrionalis.

      Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell

      • Date: April 7, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Discover the life and career of an early public health heroine.

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    7. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

      Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

      • Date: November 14, 2013
      • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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    9. Black and white photograph of SAO staff, including Nancy Prichard, then referenced to as Miss McCandlish, and Gladys T. Bond, referred to as Mrs. Bond.

      Early 20th-Century Women Computers at the Smithsonian

      • Date: August 12, 2021
      • Description: Learn about Florence A. Graves, Gladys Thurlby Bond, and Nancy Prichard, three 20th century women computers who advanced solar research.

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    11. Email Users Directory, 2015, Courtesy of David Bridge.

      The History of Email at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 21, 2015
      • Description: Many of us read, write and send emails every day, but when did it all start at the Smithsonian? In 1980 Smithsonian staff had typewriters and telephones on their desk, with one or two FAX machines per office. The Smithsonian operated a single general purpose computer, the Honeywell mainframe, for all Smithsonian data processing applications and which did not include an email

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    13. Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying

      • Date: August 2, 2012
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.

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    15. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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    17. Blog Post

      Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

      • Date: October 9, 2018
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    21. A Pioneer Mammalogist: Viola Shelly Schantz

      • Date: March 19, 2013
      • Description: In honor of Women's History Month, here is a brief biography of sorts about Viola S. Schantz, a prominent mammalogist who worked for the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service from 1918-1961.

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    23. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

      The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

      • Date: May 13, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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