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Digitized Photos and Back Stories

• Date: October 22, 2015
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?

• Date: November 3, 2015
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.

Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

• Date: June 12, 2018
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion

• Date: July 11, 2011
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

Science Service, Up Close: Emma Reh Paints Fruits and Flowers with Words

• Date: July 10, 2018
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_306419,size=200,left]During World War II, Science Service correspondent Emma Reh (1896-1982) spent several years living and working in Paraguay. Her letters home, like the ones written when she worked in Mexico and the American West, typically combined personal and professional news with her colorful descriptions of the countryside and people.Emma had

Science Service, Up Close: Herbert Clark Hoover and Radio, August 11, 1928

• Date: August 11, 2016
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: Photos in the Science Service collection documenting Herbert Hoover's historic acceptance of the Presidential nomination with live radio coverage.

Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

• Date: March 6, 2018
• Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
• Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

SIA RU007091, Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1963

• Date: 1910 1910-1963 circa 1910-1963
• Creator: Science Service
• Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives