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    Introducing: A Tale of Two Sisters: The Hungerford Deed and James Smithson’s Legacy

    • Date: August 10, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: To commemorate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary on August 10, 2021, the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives is launching a web exhibit that sheds new light on English chemist James Smithson’s gift to found the Smithsonian.

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    Link Love: 2/12/2010

    • Date: February 12, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 11/27/2009

    • Date: November 27, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="413" caption="Statue of Freedom in the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Rotunda, 1890s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 3 Folder July 1979 and Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder May 1976, Negative Number:MHT 16238."][/caption]

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    Getting Your Due, Samuel Pierpont Langley

    • Date: November 28, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: It can be so frustrating to put great effort into something, and then to have your work and achievements called into question. I can't begin to imagine how frustrated Samuel Pierpont Langley was in 1903. By that time, he had spent over forty years studying astrophysics and aerodynamics. His work on astronomically-derived time measurement in the late 1860's is the heart of the

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  9. Screenshot of the reference team's reading room calendar. Patron appointments are in dark green and include names of former employees at the Smithsonian. In a lighter green shade are initials of Archives staff who will be stationed at the reception desk.

    What It Takes to Reopen a Reading Room During a Pandemic

    • Date: July 14, 2022
    • Description: In a very exciting piece of Smithsonian Institution Archives news, our reading room reopened to visitors on May 3, 2022!

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    How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;

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  13. Mutchler stands in front of an exhibit space at NMNH.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sheila Mutchler

    • Date: March 31, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    See Here: 11/3/2010

    • Date: November 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="Portraits by Bernard Osterman, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, at the National Gallery, now NPG, in the MNH, Jan.10-24,1928, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 311 Box 32 Folder 11, Negative Number: 2002-32209."][/caption]

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    See Here: 10/1/2010

    • Date: October 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="442" caption="Men preparing the Wright 1909 Military Plane to be moved out of the North Hall of the Arts and Industries Building, August 1975, The Lunar Module can be seen on the left, by Richard Farrar, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:

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    See Here: 12/3/2010

    • Date: December 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="Installation of the Comparative Anatomy Hall in the new United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, Workers can be seen using a pulley system to raise the skeleton of a whale to the ceiling, c. 1881, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit

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    See Here: 4/5/2011

    • Date: April 5, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="United States National Museum (now the Arts and Industries Building) work and storage area with the Zuni, New Mexico,pueblo model under construction, 1880s, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 43 Folder 39, Negative Number:

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    See Here: 7/23/2010

    • Date: July 23, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="409" caption="The Postage Stamp Collection on display in pull out trays in the Arts and Industries Building, probably early in the twentieth century. Visitors are looking at various cases, Portrait paintings are visible overhead, 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 285

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