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    1. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

      Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

      • Date: March 27, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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    3. Color photo of three staff members standing in the collections processing lab

      Career advice from our Preservation Coordinator

      • Date: May 1, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: This is post is part of our series on career advice for the aspiring archives professional. Each edition features information and career advice from a different member of the Smithsonian Institution Archives team, regarding what they do, how they got here, and how you can too. Don’t be afraid to let us know who you might like to hear from next!What is preservation? This is a

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    5. Color photograph portrait of woman smiling.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Catherine Eagleton

      • Date: March 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    7. Neil Armstrong’s Apollo 11 spacesuit worn during a 2 hour, 31 minute, and 40 second EVA (extra-vehicular activity) on the Moon in 1969. Image by Eric Long, National Air and Space Museum, Image no. NASM2012-01664.

      Link Love: 7/24/2015

      • Date: July 24, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    9. Preliminary plan for exhibition layout for Civil War Experience Civil War Photography: From the Home Front to the Battlefront.

      More of Our Favorite (Digital) Things

      • Date: November 12, 2020
      • Description: It’s time to add to our list of our favorite digital items from the Archives.

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    11. A sketch by William Henry Holmes, Cozumel, Mexico, 1895.

      Sketching with William Henry Holmes

      • Date: December 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Celebrate the life and work of William Henry Holmes with coloring pages created from sketches in his field notes!

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      The Born-Digital Diaries: “Interrogate the Floppy!”

      • Date: April 28, 2020
      • Description: As an intern with the Smithsonian Institution Archives, I developed strategies that would make our born-digital collections more accessible to the researcher and enhance discoverability.

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    15. Thomas F. Flannery (1919-1999) was a cartoonist for Yank, the U.S. Army magazine, during World War II. After the war, he became a newspaper editorial cartoonist, eventually working for the Baltimore Sun, 1957-1988. Several thousand of his original drawings are in the Johns Hopkins University Library.

      Science Service, Up Close: At the Front - War Correspondents and Cartoonists

      • Date: August 27, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: War correspondents and cartoonists amongst the Science Service collections at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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      Flickr Visitor Profile: Penny Richards

      • Date: May 29, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_680" align="alignleft" width="159" caption="Flickr member, Penny L. Richards"][/caption] I work with people across the Smithsonian to add photos to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Occasionally, something stands out in the daily summary of comments and tags I receive. Sometimes, it’s an exchange between Flickr members sparked by a single

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      From a Humble Beginning: The Smithsonian’s first Internet Domain

      • Date: September 17, 2015
      • Description: The origins of the Smithsonian’s internet domain or address.

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    21. Portrait of Darling. He is wearing a suit and tie and thick, round glasses.

      “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

      • Date: May 7, 2020
      • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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      Magical Mystery Tour

      • Date: December 29, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.

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