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      50 Years of Folklife

      • Date: June 29, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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    3. An aerial view from the southwest of the Smithsonian Institution Building, 1993.

      Animals Behind the Castle: The Department of Living Animals

      • Date: July 18, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.

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    5. Interior view of two visitors looking at a skeleton with prosthetics behind glass.

      Happy National Inventors Day!

      • Date: February 11, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: We wish you a Happy National Inventors Day and invite you to check out the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation at the National Museum of American History!

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    7. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives logo with the sunburst.

      Introducing the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

      • Date: December 8, 2020
      • Description: We've got big news! The Smithsonian Libraries and Smithsonian Institution Archives have merged to become Smithsonian Libraries and Archives.

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      Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!

      • Date: October 22, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"

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    11. Screenshot of the Archives' new website pointing out our History Section.

      Welcome to Smithsonian History on Our New Website!

      • Date: October 18, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    13. People standing around quilt panel with a design of the Smithsonian Castle on the upper half and small quilt panels and people’s names on the lower half.

      The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall

      • Date: December 17, 2020
      • Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.

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    15. | ˚-˚ | Listen In - Transporting You Back to 1994 | ˚-˚ |

      • Date: November 19, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: This Path We Travel: Celebrations of Contemporary Native American Creativity, was one of the inaugural exhibitions at the National Museum of the American Indian, George Gustav Heye Center in New York City. The exhibition was a collaboration of fifteen Native American painters, sculptors, writers, musicians, and dancers. The exhibition featured sculpture, performance, poetry,

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    17. 2 visitors observe large head-shaped sculpture with horizontal bands and projection of older visitor

      Link Love: 12/15/2017

      • Date: December 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.

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    19. New York World's Fair Map

      Walt Disney's Progressland

      • Date: July 21, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Walt Disney designed--and General Electric sponsored--look at America’s figurative and literal electric future, Progressland, wowed visitors at the 1964 World’s Fair--and elements of it exist today in both Disneyland and Disney World theme parks.

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    21. A photo slide of a man sitting at a desk.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: January 12, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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      Link Love: 12/17/2010

      • Date: December 17, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="The first flight on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina with Orville Wright at the controls of the Wright Flyer, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 25 Folder 41, Negative Number: 2002-12169."][/caption] On this day in 1903 the Wright Brothers

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