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    Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: September 21, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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  3. Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901-1986)

    Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt (1901-1986)

    • Date: 1966 19-Jan-66

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    Naturalist of the Americas: Alexander Wetmore

    • Date: April 18, 2017
    • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_6874,size=185,left]Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and avian paleontologist, was the Smithsonian's sixth Secretary (1945-1952). As a young biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Biological Survey, Wetmore conducted extensive fieldwork in Latin America. He spent 1911 in Puerto Rico studying bird life, and later traveled through South

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    Mary Agnes Chase

    • Date: April 4, 2017
    • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=200,left]The foremost grass specialist of her time ended her formal education after grammar school. She began collecting and illustrating plants in her twenties, and was hired by Chicago's Field Museum in 1901 and later as a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientific illustration was a way for

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    Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher

    • Date: August 23, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who

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  11. Historic Pictures

    The South Yard

    • Date: March 17, 2011
    • Description: The South Yard behind the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Castle, is bordered on the east by the Arts and Industries Building and west by the Freer Gallery of Art. In the late 19th century, it was the site of small buildings for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Taxidermy Studio, National Zoological Park, and Aerodrome Studio. After World War I, a Quonset hut

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    2002-12207 or 95-1171

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      SIA Acc. 18-165, Cirillo, Dexter, Dexter Cirillo Papers, 1991-1998

      • Date: 1991 1991-1998
      • Creator: Cirillo, Dexter
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      73-7185

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        2002-12168 or A4574

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        • Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

          Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

          • Date: January 25, 2011
          • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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          See Here: 3/3/2010

          • Date: March 3, 2010
          • Creator: The Bigger Picture
          • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="294" caption="Rocket Row along the West Side of the Arts and Industries Building before the National Air and Space Museum was built. The four missiles on exhibit are: From left to right, the Jupiter C, which launched Explorer I, the first U.S. satellite; the Vanguard; the Polaris, the first U.S. submarine-launched ICBM; and the Atlas,

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