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  1. Image of a machine with a large, bulky computer screen.

    Microfilm Reels in the 21st Century

    • Date: June 20, 2019
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief history on the invention and implementation of microfilm and our acquisition of a new, modern microfilm reader/scanner that enables us to provide digital access to and enhance the quality of SIA’s microfilm collections.

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  3. A clever and intricate Rebus letter from J. Goldsborough Bruff of Washington, DC

    An Artistic Composition

    • Date: December 6, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research, including a rebus letter.

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    Reflections on Women's History Month

    • Date: May 7, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Throughout March, archivists from the Smithsonian Institution Archives archivists blogged about the women scientists in the Science Service Records (1902-1965). Here is a reflection on their experience.

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  7. Ellen speaks to visitors on a tour of collections in the Natural History Museum Building. She is holder up documents from a folder.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers

    • Date: April 7, 2021
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Bruff’s Artistic Code Cracked by Clever Collaborators

    • Date: December 28, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research, including a translated rebus letter.

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    The Smithsonian Sent Healing Wheels to WWI

    • Date: June 21, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: One of the challenges of being a reference archivist is focusing on the inquiries received, while suppressing the bits of information you come across that may be of personal interest (the corner of my desk is occupied by an ever increasing list of topics I aspire to research further on my own time). Recently, however, a colleague who is familiar with my interest in rare and

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    Wisdom is in the head, and not in the beard...

    • Date: March 24, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution

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    Family Vacation

    • Date: March 24, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.

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  17. Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge outside White House, Washington, D.C.; by Harris & Ewing; 1924, glass plate negative; Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress; reproduction number LC-DIG-hec-44616.

    Stumbling Upon . . . Calvin Coolidge

    • Date: December 5, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The science and method of conducting research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  19. Thomas R. Henry Press Pass, Record Unit 7347: Thomas R. Henry Papers, 1933-1967, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Thomas R. Henry: Soldier, Explorer, Scientist, Journalist

    • Date: November 6, 2014
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief biographical sketch of Thomas R. Henry, who served in WWI, was a War Correspondent in the field during WWII, participated in the “Operation High Jump” exploration of Antarctica (1946-1947,) served the Smithsonian as a press writer, and The Washington Evening Star as a science writer.

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  21. Scan of a black and white forest fire prevention poster featuring the head of Smokey the Bear

    Bearly Survived to become an Icon

    • Date: May 27, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Some of you may recall the symbol of the United States Forest Service fire prevention program, Smokey Bear. Perhaps I am dating myself, however I distinctly recall posters and television commercials between Saturday morning cartoons depicting the almost human looking bear wearing his park ranger hat and blue jeans, with shovel in one hand and stern finger pointed with the

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  23. Berlandier Fish (Pimelodus maculatus), Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Box 12, Folder 14, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

    • Date: June 5, 2014
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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