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  • SMITHSONIAN LIBRARIES
    1.5 million printed books, manuscripts, periodicals, exhibition catalogs, and electronic versions of rare books and exhibitions.
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  • ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPTS & PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS
    252,000 descriptions of personal papers, manuscripts, photographs, oral histories, films, and organizational records.
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  • SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM RESEARCH DATABASES
    600,000 records of the Inventory of American Painting & Sculpture, Photograph Archives and Pre-1877 Art Exhibition Catalogue Index.
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  • SPECIALIZED RESEARCH BIOLIOGRAPHIES
    15,500 citations specialized in Cephalopod, Marine Mammals and Museum Studies research.
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  • HISTORY OF SMITHSONIAN
    10,000 records including bibliographic & legal citations, important events, images, and biographical information on the Board of Regents.
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  • DIRECTORY OF AIRPLANES
    40,000 aircraft and manufacturer records comprise this authority listing- an online expansion of The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Directory of Airplanes, Their Designers and Manufacturers.
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Browse Image Gallery The SIRIS Image Gallery contains a sampling of visual records and it includes over 138,000 electronic images from several archival repositories and museums at the Smithsonian.
 


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Women in history
World War 1939-1945

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Air & Space
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