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  1. A man sits next to Rosemary Fallon, who is lifting a mat from what appears to be a photograph on a desk. Weights hold down the image. Both people are looking at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rosemary Fallon

    • Date: October 27, 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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  3. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

    Link Love: 8/25/2017

    • Date: August 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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    Not Restarting, Starting Over: New Workflows for a New “Normal”

    • Date: August 24, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Being away from the office for over a year has given us a lot of opportunity to think about what workflows will look like once we are able to return to our collections, especially for conservation and digitization.

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  7. Two men are seated at a table, A microphone and a water pitcher is in between them.

    Celebrating National Radio Day

    • Date: August 18, 2022
    • Description: We’ve shared a lot about The World Is Yours, the Smithsonian’s first educational radio show, but this National Radio Day, we are highlighting some of the other radio programs in our collections.

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  9. Tojin ja-odori no zu / Chinese dragon dance, [between 1850-1900], Chadbourne Collection of Japanese Prints, Library of Congress [LC-USZC4-10363].

    Link Love: 6/23/2017

    • Date: June 23, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in the early 1900s underneath Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle, were the makings of former Smithsonian employee and entomologist, Harrison G. Dyar (whose papers happen to be in our collections). Read more about this fascinating story and character at "the location" blog [via The e-Torch]. The Internet Archive explains

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    Link Love: 6/10/2011

    • Date: June 10, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="179" caption="Portrait photograph of Harrison Gray Dyar (1866-1929), entomologist at the United States National Museum at the Smithsonian from 1897 until his death in 1929, c. 1920s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Negative Number: SIA2009-0002."][/caption] It turns out that a series of mysterious tunnels discovered in

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  15. Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life

    • Date: May 28, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.

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    Smithsonian Volunteers: Thanks for the Time and Talent!

    • Date: April 6, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: In celebration of over a century of volunteer contributions at the Smithsonian, explore the work of some stellar volunteers from our collection.

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  19. Devra Kleiman and others taking measurements in Brazil of a Golden Lion Tamarin.

    Archives: It’s not just paper, it’s people

    • Date: August 29, 2011
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8807,size=250,left] In the institutional archivists' world, there is constant discussion about what we save and why we save it. While there are many reasons why this is such a pointed concern, one of the main factors institutions consider when deciding what to collect is the relevance of a collection's contents to the institution's mission.

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  21. Szczepanowska works on a satellite.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Hanna M. Szczepanowska

    • Date: June 9, 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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  23. Two women work in a lab. Gilligan is working closest to the camera and is looking directly into the lens. She is wearing white gloves. The woman in the back has her head down and is wearing a white lab coat and white gloves.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Eliza Gilligan Lenz

    • Date: October 20, 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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