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[Visitors]Visitors at the Smithsonian Building
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Secretary Joseph Henry with his family playing croquet
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives		[Secretary and family]
[Fire in the Smithsonian Building]Fire in the Smithsonian Building
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Young explorers for the Smithsonian
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives		[Young explorers]
[Holmes]Young Holmes on Hayden Yellowstone Expedition
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Smithsonian Exhibit at the Centennian Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives		[exhibit]
[A&I building]Telephone and telegraph office, Arts and Industries Building, 1881
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
[whale]Preparing humpback whale exhibit in Arts and Industries Building, 1886
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Alice C. Fletcher, Bureau of American Ethnology, and Winnebago women, c. 1887
Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives		[women]
[staff]Staff the International Exchange Service
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Annual Egg Roll on Easter Monday at the National Zoological Park
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives		[egg roll]
[snow]Smithsonian grounds during a snowstorm, c. 1915
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Repairing the Star-Spangled Banner
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives		[flag]
[STRI]Opening day at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
Botanist Mary Agnes Chase in Brazil,1933
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives		[Chase]
[stamp]Commemorative STAMP ISSUED FOR THE SMITHSONIAN CENTENNIAL IN 1946
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
"Rocket Row" National Air and Space Museum, 1960's
Photo Courtesy of SI Office of Printing and Photographic Services		[rockets]
[Ripley]Secretary S. Dillon Ripley and "Uncle Beazley" at opening of Anacostia Museum, 1968
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives
[panda]Pandas Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing at the National Zoological Park, 1981
Photo Courtesy of Jessie Cohen, National Zoological Park
Yugoslav dancers rehearse for Festival of American Folklife, 1973
Photo Courtesy of SI Office of Printing and Photograph Services		[dancers]
[Hirshhorn]Opening day at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Photo Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives

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