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  1. NPPTL’s promotional graphic of a nurse wearing a respirator next to the words N95 Day 2018.

    Preserve Us From Particulates: Celebrating N95 Day

    • Date: September 4, 2018
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: N95 Day is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to promote the safe and proper use of N95 face respirators.

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    Cherry Blossoms, Travel Logs, and Colonial Connections: Eliza Scidmore’s Contributions to the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 18, 2020
    • Description: Eliza Scidmore was a lifelong photographer, writer, and world traveler. In addition to facilitating a gift of cherry blossom trees from Japan to the U.S. capital, Scidmore donated her time, photographs, and some artifacts to the Smithsonian’s collections. She also accessed the world through colonial channels that she reinforced with her writings.

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  5. Bird observations recorded by Alexander Wetmore in Wisconsin, 1901.

    Alexander Wetmore: Observing the Making of a Scientist

    • Date: January 5, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: On National Bird Day, a look at the long and illustrious ornithology career of Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore.

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    Records and Information Management: The Archivist

    • Date: May 6, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Saving Face About Saving Data

    • Date: November 1, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Sorry, We're Open, by mofo, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] Back in May, I wrote about a controversy that surfaced in Europe after privacy advocates revealed that in the act of collecting photographic images for its Street View application, Google was also scooping up private data from the unsecured WiFi

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    New Field Book Sets on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons

    • Date: August 24, 2011
    • 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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    Animal Collecting in Liberia - 1940

    • Date: July 29, 2014
    • Description: Newly digitized footage gives us a glimpse of the 1940 Smithsonian-Firestone Expedition to Liberia.

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    3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

    • Date: March 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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  17. Pink Scrapbook with Blank Cover, by pd_THOR, Creative Commons.

    Cut and Paste, Old Style

    • Date: September 13, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Some years back, and for what seemed like quite a while, people were talking about scrapbooking. As more aspects of everyday life were going digital, it felt like more and more people were paying homage to the paper-based mementoes of their experiences that appeared to be heading for oblivion. Quickly, and to support all the saving, trimming, and gluing that people were

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    Here at the Smithsonian: Showcasing Women’s Expertise at the Smithsonian

    • Date: March 29, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: This Women’s History Month, we’re sharing two recently-digitized video clips featuring women and their expertise at our museums.

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  21. See Mrs. D. D. Gaillard or Katherine Ross Davis Gaillard in the bottom right corner of this page.

    Hidden in Plain Sight: Reading Between the Lines with the Smithsonian Transcription Center Volunteers

    • Date: February 24, 2015
    • Description: As Smithsonian Transcription Center volunteers unlock the stories from the Archives’ collections, we find ways to share the work of women in science hidden in the digitized pages.

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  23. Black and white photograph of two young boys sweeping sidewalk in front of museum entrance.

    Fifty Years and Many More to Come!

    • Date: September 12, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that

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