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    John Kinard

    • Date: August 23, 2016
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_14623,size=300,left]Born in 1936 in Washington DC, John Robert Edward Kinard would become the first African American director of a Smithsonian museum at the age of 31. Kinard’s circuitous path into museum work took him from development work in Africa to community organizing on Maryland’s Eastern Shore to a dilapidated theater on Nichols Street in DC’s

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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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    Microsoft Word - Crossword Puzzle Day I History Edition (1).docx

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      SIA Acc. 06-093, Smithsonian African Expedition (1909-1910), Lantern Slides from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, circa 1909-1910, 1989

      • Date: 1909 1909-1910 circa 1909-1910, 1989
      • Creator: Smithsonian African Expedition (1909-1910)
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 08-010, Smithsonian Institution Office of Exhibits Central, Exhibition Records, 1990-2004

      • Date: 1990 1990-2004
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Exhibits Central
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 18-140, National Museum of American History (U.S.) Division of Work and Industry, Exhibition Records, 1960, 1981, 1998-2012

      • Date: 1998 1998-2012 1960, 1981, 1998-2012
      • Creator: National Museum of American History. Division of Work and Industry
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    • Barbara A. Crumpler, by Unknown, 1973, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 73-1396.

      Barbara A. Crumpler

      • Date: 1973
      • Creator: Unknown
      • Creator: Unknown

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      Solomon Brown

      • Date: August 19, 2016
      • Description: Born in 1829 to free black parents along the border between Maryland and the District of Columbia, Solomon Galleon Brown would become, at age 23, the first black employee of the Smithsonian. Starting out as a laborer in the Exchange Office, he ultimately became the personal assistant of Spencer Baird, the second secretary of the Smithsonian. By the time of his 1904 retirement,

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      G. Wayne Clough, 1941-

      • Date: April 14, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      The Smithsonian's 165th Anniversary

      • Date: August 10, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Exactly 165 years ago today, legislation establishing the Smithsonian Institution was passed by the US Congress and signed into law by President James K. Polk. From today’s perspective, it seems like a “no-brainer” to accept a generous bequest from a little-known Englishman named James Smithson and create an institution in his name. But from the perspective of that era, the

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    • Some African Great Plains Animals Exhibit, Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History

      Some African Great Plains Animals Exhibit, Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History

      • Date: 1959
      • Creator: Unknown
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    • Some African Great Plains Animals Exhibit, Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History

      Some African Great Plains Animals Exhibit, Hall of Mammals, National Museum of Natural History

      • Date: 1959
      • Creator: Unknown
      • Creator: Unknown

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