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    "To Have and to Hold”: Parsing the Legal Framework of the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: May 12, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Now that we know more about the Hungerford Deed, dive in with us as we seek to understand its legal framework and context.

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  3. The Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory. Behind the sign is a series of cascading wetland pools containing native plants. Photo by Kira Sobers, September 12, 2015.

    The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

    • Date: October 13, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: With nineteen museums and research centers, the Smithsonian Institution is so much more than just the buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In fact, if you drive about 33 miles east of the National Mall, you will find the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), located in Edgewater, Maryland, and this year, the site is celebrating its 50th Anniversary.

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    From Wright Memorial to Museum for the Space Age

    • Date: November 2, 2017
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14760,size=200,left] On July 1, 2016, the current National Air and Space Museum (NASM) building, covered with a Tenessee pink marble façade and recessed glass bays, celebrated its 40th anniversary. For this, NASM reopened its central exhibition, the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall, and hosted various events including greetings from Mars and from

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    Decoding Taxonomic Mysteries in Secretary Baird’s Correspondence

    • Date: May 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Archives was recently gifted an 1860 letter from Spencer F. Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian, to George N. Lawrence, fellow naturalist. The donor requested that, along with a digital version, a transcription be provided, which I undertook alongside a simple treatment. The letter was in overall excellent condition: the thin paper exhibited only a pair of small

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    What’s in a Word?

    • Date: November 20, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: How can you help the Smithsonian uncover new information about its collections? Try your hand transcribing documents, diaries, and field books at the new Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  11. Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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  13. Speak Softly . . .

    • Date: November 3, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This summer witnessed an exciting find by interns Shereen Choudhury and Rachel Midura, who identified Teddy Roosevelt in one of the broken glass plate negatives they were inventorying. This glass plate comes from a collection of images that have all been numbered, but have minimal descriptive records indicating what they may represent.

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  15. Blog Post

    Happy Flag Day!

    • Date: June 14, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: On June 14, 1777 the Continental Congress adopted the stars and stripes as the national flag and on the same day one hundred years later, the first observance of the Flag was held. However, it was not celebrated again on such a scale until 1916, in the midst of World War I, when President Woodrow Wilson pronounced the day Flag Day. Though not officially adopted by Congress as

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    New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons

    • Date: August 24, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. The indenture during the local humidification and flattening stage. The portion featuring the seals has become completely detached. Photo courtesy of William Bennett.

    Breach of Contract: Repairing the Walcott Indenture

    • Date: March 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: See how we preserved a recent arrival to the Archives.

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  21. George Sarton

    Science Service, Up Close: George Sarton, Watson Davis, and “Panache”

    • Date: June 23, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For historians of science, the name “Sarton” resonates like a deep-throated bell. Isis, the international journal that chemist and mathematician George Sarton (1884-1956) founded in Belgium in 1913, is now the premier publication of the History of Science Society. The field he envisioned is flourishing as well as continually responding to changes in science and its social

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  23. A group of people hold up “welcome” signs at an entrance of the National Museum of American History.

    We Apologize for the Inconvenience: Shutting Down the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 14, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In 2019, the Smithsonian faced the repercussions of the nation’s longest-ever government shutdown, but the institution is no stranger to the dreaded furlough.

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