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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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    3. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

      Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

      • Date: June 9, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Volunteers and the Smithsonian: A History

      • Date: April 5, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    7. Three teens examining a hidden message on a pencil in front of gothic doors.

      Well-played!

      • Date: August 29, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Castle halls were alive with adventure this summer! From July 7th to August 27th, we piloted a live game for teens, The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches. A look at some of the early feedback received on the Smithsonian's pilot of a history game, "The Mystery of the Meghatherium Club: Mayhem and Mustaches."

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      Photo Sleuth: When the Evidence Doesn’t Add Up

      • Date: May 14, 2013
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: What happens when you have information about a historic photograph that is contradictory? How do you decide what information is correct? Check out how one historian grapples with these mysteries.

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    11. Teens at the Human-Centered Design Workshop

      Connecting Teens and the Castle

      • Date: April 25, 2017
      • Description: A quick look inside the development of a teen-centric program/experience at the Smithsonian Castle.

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      Just what is an archives, anyway?

      • Date: October 5, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: This month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, along with many other archives across the Smithsonian and around the nation, will be celebrating American Archives Month. The purpose of this celebration is "to raise awareness about the value of archives and archivists." We write a lot about what an archivist does on this blog, but, for those of you who don't know and are

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    15. A letter from Waldo Schmitt Jr. to his father, 1925.

      Care Package from Home

      • Date: July 11, 2017
      • Creator: Charles Zange
      • Description: A look at letters from home that the Smithsonian's Dr. Waldo L. Schmitt received while traveling on expeditions in 1925.

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      It’s Our Anniversary…

      • Date: March 2, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="305" caption="Cake, by Daniel Nelson, Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0."][/caption] It’s hard to believe, but it has been two years to the day that THE BIGGER PICTURE has been in existence (note: that rogue January post doesn’t count as it was backdated)! The blog was started by the Smithsonian Photography

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      I Found My Dad at the Smithsonian

      • Date: December 2, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    21. The cover of Science Remaking the World. Note that E.E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson’s name was misspelled as “Edward Slosson.”

      Science Service, Up Close: Books, Readers, and Recommendations

      • Date: December 3, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Need a new book to read? Look no further than these recommendations from Smithsonian Science Service staff writers during the 1920s and 1930s.

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    23. The Normal Rock Creek by William H. Holmes

      William Henry Holmes

      • Date: November 29, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The multi-talented William Henry Holmes contributed to the Smithsonian as an artist, explorer, geologist, archeologist and museum director.

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