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  1. Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

    Sneak Peek 6/24/2013

    • Date: June 24, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: War Department Ordnance Exhibit at the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

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  3. On October 14, 1947, the Bell X-1 became the first airplane to fly faster than the speed of sound. Piloted by U.S. Air Force Capt. Charles E.

    Link Love: 5/1/2015

    • Date: May 1, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  5. The Star Trek starship Enterprise Studio Model being removed from the lower level of the National Air and Space Museum Shop, by Mark Avino, National Air and Space Museum, image number WEB14418-2014.

    Link Love: 9/19/2014

    • Date: September 19, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  7. Alexander Wetmore, 1910.

    A Wonderful Wetmore Adventure

    • Date: May 31, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Thanks to our volunteers who transcribed the entirety of the Alexander Wetmore photo album collection!

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  9. Portrait of William Jervis Hough, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1845-1847, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2002-32241.

    Legislative Logjam to Kitchen Sink

    • Date: May 22, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In the spring of 1846, after years of debate, the legislative logjam over what the Smithsonian would be was finally broken with compromise legislation by New York Congressman, William Jervis Hough.

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  11. Portrait of Carl William Schuermann, Jr.

    Spotlight: Carl William Schuermann, Jr., Property Clerk

    • Date: October 28, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: We're taking a closer look at Carl William Schuermann, Jr., a Smithsonian property clerk with an interest in ornithology.

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  13. Blog Post

    Save Our African American Treasures

    • Date: March 29, 2011
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian'€™s National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption

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  15. Chief Preparator in the Department of Anthropology Conservation Laboratory

    Sneak Peek 2/26/2018

    • Date: February 26, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Andreas Joseph Andrews, chief preparator in the Department of Anthropology Conservation Laboratory at the Museum of Natural History, sculpts model of face, October 19, 1967, SIA Acc. 11-008, OPA-1104-12.

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  17. Portrait of Mildred Mott Wedel and Waldo Wedel

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen Jagodzinske

    • Date: December 28, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Archaeologist & ethnohistorian Mildred Mott Wedel was appointed Smithsonian research associate, 1974 and was the 1st woman to receive an anthropology fellowship from the University of Chicago. She often worked alongside her husband, Waldo Wedel, and their research on Plains Indians remains important today. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Tweet sent by Jacob Harris, 11/12/2014.

    How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant

    • Date: January 6, 2015
    • Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how

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    Most Likely to be Succeeded

    • Date: May 19, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Posing with a yearbook picture of myself, by Billy Mabray, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I’m a fan of yearbooks. I was an editor of mine in college, a somewhat unusual, multi-volume, and boxed object that included two books, a booklet, a brochure, and (it being the late sixties) a balloon. Back then, we

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    Here Comes the Revolution?

    • Date: September 11, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_2262" align="aligncenter" width="186" caption="Frankenstein by MARX!, by Flickr user TCM Hitchhiker."][/caption] For all the talk about creative seeing and the art of photography, the technical parameters of picture-taking and making have, for the most part, been defined by manufacturers of camera and photographic supplies. That wasn’t always the case;

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