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Detail from Ludwig sketchbook, learning from That Person's work, 2005. Matt Mullican papers, circa 1968-2017. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Dice and Divination: Matt Mullican's Symbols

Ernest Hemingway / Henry Strater / 1930 / Private collection

National Portrait Gallery

Henry Strater’s Portrait of Ernest Hemingway

Detail of page 3 of Trek Vol. 1, no. 2, 1943 February. Esther McCoy papers 1876-1990, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Miné Okubo, Number 13660

Detail from Roberto Matta letter to Allan Frumkin, circa 1952. Allan Frumkin Gallery records, 1880-2016. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Acquisitions: Allan Frumkin Gallery Records

Detail of cardboard box with price code key for Winslow Homer paintings, between 1900 and 1950. Doll & Richards records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Cracking Codes: What Does an Artichoke Have to Do With Selling Art?

A Chinese mitten crab found in Chesapeake Beach, Maryland, in 2007. Chinese mitten crabs are most recognizable by their brown, spiny shells and furry “mittened” claws. (Credit: SERC)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Wanted: The Hunt for Chinese Mitten Crabs Is Back On

Male Bocon toadfish of Panama attract mates by singing in a series of “grunts” and “boops.” (Credit: Study authors)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

The Ugly Fish That Sings Its Own Song

SERC marine biologist Brianna Tracy holds a plate with marine life pulled from a dock in San Francisco. (Credit: Kristen Minogue/SERC)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Citizen Science: Help Spot Invaders With Your Smart Phone

SERC interns Michelle Edwards (left) and Claire Mueller (right) get ready to release a tagged bull shark. (Credit: Jay Fleming/Smithsonian)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Intern Logs: Tagging Sharks in the Sunshine State

The awesomely beautiful tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of Kansas. The Flint Hills contains the majority of the remaining tallgrass prairie in the United States, thanks to its rocky soil that prevented farmers from plowing it under to farm the fertile soils. (Credit: Kim La Pierre)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Confessions of a Real Life Scientist: Grasslands of the World

Katrina Lohan analyzes parasite DNA in SERC’s Ecological Genomics Core. The results help detect parasites infecting oysters or lurking the ballast water of large ships. (Credit: Kristen Minogue/SERC)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Confessions of a Real Life Scientist: The Thrill of Learning

Designer, artist, activist, and organizer Jordan Cocker. (Tekpatl Kuauhtzin)

National Museum of the American Indian

"To Indigenize the Western World"—Artist and Organizer Jordan Cocker

Manitok Thompson, Veronica Connelly, Rosie Kowna Oolooyuk, and Bernadette Dean at the National Museum of the American Indian's Cultural Resources Center. The four women—skilled caribou and sealskin clothing makers, and fluent Inuktitut-speakers and knowledge keepers—traveled to Washington from Nunavut as guests of the Embassy of Canada to attend the opening of the embassy's exhibition

National Museum of the American Indian

Inuit Women's Survival Skills, Which Kept Arctic Explorers Alive, Help Heal Residential School Survivors

A drawer of pinned adult mosquitoes from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History’s National Mosquito Collection. The specimens shown here were digitized recently. Meaning, their bionomic information is databased and individual specimens are cataloged. (David Pecor, WBRU)

National Museum of Natural History

Can Scientists Stop One of the World's Deadliest Mosquitoes?

Delaware leaders prepare to unveil the Treaty of Fort Pitt, on view at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. From left to right: Denise Stonefish, chief of the Delaware Nation at Moraviantown; museum director Kevin Gover; Chester “Chet’ Brooks, chief of the Delaware Tribe of Indians; and Deborah Dotson, president of the Delaware Nation. May 10, 2018, Washington, D.C. (Paul Morigi/AP Images for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)

National Museum of the American Indian

A Brief Balance of Power—The 1778 Treaty with the Delaware Nation

National Museum of Natural History

Meet the People Leading the Fight Against Pandemics

Photograph of John Steuart Curry sketching a football practice at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1936 or 1937 / unidentified photographer. John Steuart Curry and Curry family papers, 1848-1999. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

Sketching at the Scrimmage Line: The Story of a Photograph

NASA's Project Mercury astronauts on April 9, 1959. Known as the Mercury Seven or Original Seven, they are (front row, left to right) Walter M.

National Air and Space Museum

Remembering Tom Wolfe and "The Right Stuff"

The Panamanian golden frog is in the toad family. Toads usually have dry skin compared to other frogs. (Brian Gratwicke, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute)

Smithsonian Science Education Center

Why Did Scientists Build an Amphibian Ark?

Miné Okubo letter to Kay Sekimachi and Bob Stocksdale, ca. 1980. Bob Stocksdale and Kay Sekimachi papers, 1937-2014. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.

Archives of American Art

A Friendship in Letters: Miné Okubo and Kay Sekimachi

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