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    1. SI History Chronology

      Higginbotham Appointed SI Regent

      • Date: 1972

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    3. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

      Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

      • Date: May 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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    5. SI History Chronology

      National Memorial Commission met with President Hoover

      • Date: December 5, 1929

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    7. Link Love: 02/26/2021

      • Date: February 26, 2021
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    9. A military pension card for Harrison Lomax. He filed in Virginia and is listed in the class

      Harrison Lomax: Smithsonian Employee, Civil War Veteran, Husband, Father

      • Date: September 1, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As a laborer at the Smithsonian from 1882 until his death in 1918, Harrison Lomax served the Institution’s top leaders. A letter in our collections that he wrote to Secretary Samuel P. Langley is an example of the ways in which African American employees advocated for themselves in order to earn promotions and raises.

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    11. SI History Chronology

      AM Completes Collection Management Policy

      • Date: 1992

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    13. People sit at desks in a lab area with jars of specimens on shelves. Men and women are pictured.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Roberta W. Rubinoff

      • Date: August 19, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Roberta Wolff Rubinoff was a biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama between 1965 and 1979. In 1980, she was appointed the assistant director of the Office of Fellowships and Grants in Washington, D.C., and from 1986 to 2001, she served in the top role as director of the office.In Panama, Rubinoff served as the marine sciences coordinator and

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      Link Love: 9/2/2016

      • Date: September 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Archives pay tribute to Gene Wilder. [via University of Iowa Libraries]A behind-the-scenes look at the Academy Film Archives' efforts to save historic films...and the task is enormous. [via NY Times]The director who's making history on 9/24 with the opening of our National Museum of African American History and Culture, Lonnie Bunch. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Speaking of the

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        James Thomas Gant

        • Date: August 25, 2016
        • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8206,size=350,right]Born around 1815, James Thomas Gant was one of twelve children born to free parents on a plantation a few miles northeast of the Washington DC-line.1 As a free black man who lived through nearly the entire nineteenth century, he would see the Civil War, the destruction of slavery, the rise and fall of an all-too-brief period of

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      • Link Love: 12/21/2018

        • Date: December 21, 2018
        • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
        • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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      • Link Love: 01/22/2021

        • Date: January 22, 2021
        • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
        • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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