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  1. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

    Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

    • Date: August 25, 2015
    • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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    See Here: 4/22/2011

    • Date: April 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="Josef J. Fénykövi sent a series of images in February 1958 of a young (15-18 years old) bull elephant, captured in Angola a few days before the photographs were taken, to Dr. Remington Kellogg, director of the United States National Museum (USNM), to help the USNM taxidermists in their preparation of a model, on which to

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    Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack

    • Date: March 17, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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  7. Photograph album page, black paper with five black and white photographs of plants and a spider specimen.

    Thanks for the specimens, J. Bruce Bredin!

    • Date: October 11, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: This philanthropist’s passion for research and adventure inspired him to join a series of collecting expeditions with the Smithsonian in the 1950s.

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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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  11. Alexander Wetmore, 1910.

    A Wonderful Wetmore Adventure

    • Date: May 31, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Thanks to our volunteers who transcribed the entirety of the Alexander Wetmore photo album collection!

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    Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

    • Date: May 19, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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    See Here: 5/25/2010

    • Date: May 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="An exhibit of rocks and minerals in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, The exhibit includes Balls of Brecciated Marble from Japan in the middle case and other samples of rocks and minerals in the other cases next to it, 1900s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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    See Here: 8/24/2010

    • Date: August 24, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="296" caption="Letter by President Andrew Jackson to the United States Congress informs them that as president he has no authority to take any steps for accepting James Smithson's bequest but instructs Congress to take such measures as they deem necessary to accept the funds, December 17, 1835, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record

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    See Here: 5/9/2011

    • Date: May 9, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Foster Henderson Benjamin (1895-1936), lepidopterist, was with the United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Entomology, There he assisted in the investigations of the Mexican (Texas, 1927) and Mediterranean (Florida, 1929) fruit flies, c. 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Sepia photographic print, Smithsonian

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  21. Diplodocus on display among other mammals on display.

    Archives Puzzles: Piecing Together the Diplodocus

    • Date: October 26, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    See Here: 10/5/2010

    • Date: October 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Waldo LaSalle Schmitt at the Cosmos Hotel, Punta Arenas, Chile, Schmitt, curator of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum, conducted extensive field work in South America, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7231 Box 83 Folder

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