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  1. An advertisement for packaged air featured in Life Magazine, January 24, 1944.

    Keeping Your Cool: Advertising Air Conditioning

    • Date: June 20, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look back at some historic, pre- and post-World War II air conditioning advertising.

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    Unity for International Migratory Bird Day

    • Date: May 10, 2018
    • Creator: Matt Peterson
    • Description: The theme of this year’s International Migratory Bird Day is unity. The Smithsonian has a longstanding history of commitment to the natural world. No figure in the Institution’s history better exemplifies the theme of unity surrounding migratory species than sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. He knew the importance of the role that birds play in

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  5. Blue-tinted cyanotype of a statue in the middle of a lake. A large, beautiful building is in the background.

    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

    • Date: October 13, 2020
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website

    • Date: January 18, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collections to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.New Finding Aids Online: A group of collections documenting the field work of scientists who worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology:

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    click! in the Classroom

    • Date: March 18, 2010
    • Description: When most people think of Lincoln, Nebraska, the images they probably conjure up are of Husker football fans dressed in red, and the endless flat expanse of Interstate 80 as it stretches westward toward the Rocky Mountains. What most people don’t know is that Nebraska has become the fifth largest refugee resettlement site per capita, compared with states of similar

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  11. Color drawing of the potential interior of the

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Latino Center

    • Date: September 17, 2020
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Documenting the history, programs, and activities of the Smithsonian Latino Center through the capture of their websites and their other online sites.

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  13. William Zeckendorf sits behind desk in his

    The Failed Zeckendorf Plan

    • Date: November 19, 2013
    • Description: During planning of the future National Museum of American History, Webb and Knapp attempted to move it off the Mall into Southwest Washington.

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    The Puget Sound Biological Station

    • Date: August 25, 2022
    • Description: We’re exploring the storied history of Friday Harbor Labs, a MarineGEO site, in Washington State.

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  17. Group viewing footage of Ling-Ling on camera.

    Saving Giant Pandas: Conservation at the National Zoo

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Today is Giant Panda cub Bao Bao’s third birthday, and yesterday her little brother, Bei Bei, turned one. This marks the first time in the forty-four years of panda conservation at the National Zoo that there have been two healthy cubs in residence at the zoo at the same time, but that’s not for lack of trying.

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    This Side of Paradise

    • Date: July 31, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="310" caption="Group of Young Women in Costume During Arrival Reception For Tourists Near Plane at Airport, by Gerald James Holton, 1968, National Museum of Natural History, National Anthropological Archives."][/caption] I came across these photos of tourists on Easter Island on our site and their presence has kind of baffled me.

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  21. Larry Hagman holds up a

    Link Love: 7/9/2021

    • Date: July 9, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a biweekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    Link Love: 5/13/2011

    • Date: May 13, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Six children play on the sculpture "Uncle Beazley," the 25 foot long replica of a triceratops, placed on the Mall in front of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), 1976, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 33, Folder: 23, Negative Number:

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