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      Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture

      • Date: September 26, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are

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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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      We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!

      • Date: June 30, 2022
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.

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    7. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

      • Date: March 30, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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      Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives

      • Date: July 2, 2019
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.

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      The Arctic Adventures of Neal Griffith Smith

      • Date: December 21, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Today is the first day of winter. Not ready for the cold weather? It could always be worse. Ornithologist (and future tropical biologist) Neal Griffith Smith once wrote in his journal:"Still pensil [sic]. Well, I've got time and temperature to write. Just sharpened the pensil with a snow knife. We are parked smack in the middle of Southampton [Island] in a bloody windstorm. It

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    13. Revisiting the Arts and Industries Building

      • Date: April 17, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Closed to the public since 2004, the Arts and Industries Building remains closed for the foreseeable future. Here is a look back at what used to be there.

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    15. A photo of Mary Woodard Lasker (1900-1994).

      There Are Prizes . . . and There Are Winners

      • Date: March 6, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Nobel prizes are not the only rewards for work improving public health and making the world a better place.

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    17. A woman presents an award to a man. They are shaking hands.

      Smithsonian Spotlight: Carmen E. Turner

      • Date: February 20, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: How does one climb from working as a clerk typist to being appointed second-in-command at the Smithsonian? Meet Carmen Turner.

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    19. Opening of the National Collection of Fine Arts, 1968.

      Design + Archives: Posters

      • Date: October 6, 2016
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A selection of posters from programs and exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (formerly National Collection of Fine Arts and National Museum of American Art) and Renwick Gallery.

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      We Are Not Alone: Progress in the Digital Preservation Community

      • Date: October 2, 2018
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: An international community of researchers and practitioners are driving the professional practice of digital preservation towards greater maturity and opening doors to new levels of access.

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      Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

      • Date: September 21, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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