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    1. Jacobs sits across from a woman at a desk and takes notes.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Madeleine Jacobs

      • Date: July 29, 2020
      • 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. Highlights from the 2018 Society of American Archivists Conference

      • Date: September 11, 2018
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Here is a look at some of the most interesting presentations Archives staff attended at this year's Society of American Archivists conference.

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    5. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

      Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

      • Date: May 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    9. Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

      Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner

      • Date: November 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.

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    11. First Presentation of the American Welding Society’s Lincoln Gold Medal

      Science Service, Up Close: Honors and Honorees

      • Date: August 4, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A selection from thirty years of engineering and scientific awards from the Science Service biographical morgue.

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      Emergency Preparedness: Because There May Come a Day…

      • Date: May 3, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: When disaster strikes your collections, it can be stressful, especially if you’ve neglected that emergency preparedness plan. MayDay is the perfect time each year to revisit preparedness, salvage, and recovery plans, and here are a few keys things to make sure you include to aid in your disaster response.

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      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    17. James Smithson as an Oxford Student, 1786, by James Roberts.

      James Smithson at Oxford

      • Date: September 12, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_6861,size=300,right] Some students look forward eagerly to the new school year; others dread the end of summer and the long year ahead. How did the Smithsonian’s founding donor, James Smithson (1765-1829), feel about school? Smithson attended Oxford University in England from 1782 to 1786, receiving a Masters of Arts degree in chemistry and mineralogy.

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    19. Photographers with photographic equipment by the U.S. Fish Commission fish hatchery ponds located near the grounds of the Washington Monument.

      Vintage Shutterbugs

      • Date: May 26, 2020
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Did you know that May is National Photography Month? Declared by Congress as a month-long event in 1987, National Photography Month celebrates all aspects of photography. We invite you to see what our photographers were up to a century before this declaration in this behind- the-scenes slideshow of the photographic laboratory spaces, set-ups, and equipment of the United States

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    21. Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives

      • Date: May 2, 2013
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.

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      Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack

      • Date: March 17, 2011
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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