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    ‘Oh, I’m Glad That’s on the Mall’: NMAAHC Celebrates Its Fifth Anniversary

    • Date: September 23, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: The National Museum of African American History and Culture marks its fifth anniversary.

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    Discoveries Don’t Happen in an Armchair

    • Date: November 27, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The 19th century was a transformative time for the natural sciences. New discoveries didn't just happen in an armchair. Scientists adventured into unfamiliar territory by land and sea on expeditions, and their new findings fed new theories. Groups like the Columbian Institute for the Promotion of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences formalized America's place

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    Publicity, Politics, and Physics

    • Date: March 10, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    Where’s Waldo . . . L. Schmitt?

    • Date: February 18, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.

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  9. A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.

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  11. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

    Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

    • Date: November 10, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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  13. Historic Pictures

    National Portrait Gallery

    • Date: April 18, 2011
    • Description: Although planning began in 1919, the National Portrait Gallery was not created until 1962, and it opened to the public in the historic Patent Office Building in 1968. Known for its iconic collections of portraits of a broad spectrum of Americans, the gallery is also noted for its Hall of Presidents. History of the National Portrait GalleryAdditional Historic Images of the

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    SIA Acc. 17-320, Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Records, 1941-2012

    • Date: 1941 1941-2012
    • Creator: Society of Vertebrate Paleontology
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    The Bigger Picture - Page 51|Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      The Bigger Picture - Page 51|Smithsonian Institution Archives

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