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    Everyone into the White House Photo Pool!

    • Date: May 28, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1085" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="President Barack Obama and health care executives leave the State Dining Room of the White House following a press statement May 11, 2009. Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson."][/caption] A few days ago, watching TV and seeing Barack Obama face yet another gaggle of photographers and

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  3. Chemist Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895] sitting in lab. She was Director of the Cellulose Laboratories of the Chemical Foundation, at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Yonkers, New York, doing pioneering work on cellulose synthesis and plastids. She was known for the use of photographs and motion pictures in her research.

    Hats Off to Women in Science!

    • Date: January 15, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A nod to the hats of women in science in honor of National Hat Day.

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    New Image of Supernova

    • Date: April 8, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="385" caption="A Young Pulsar Shows its Hand, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory"][/caption] On Friday, April 3, the Chandra X-ray Observatory released a new image (with 10 times more data) of supernova B1509 which is now available on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. Chandra orbits the earth every 2.5 days capturing images

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  7. Going Back to School

    • Date: September 29, 2010
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: This month students head back to school ready for another year of learning. And though the summer crowds may have gone home, staff around the Smithsonian are now preparing for the many field trips headed their way. One of my favorite things about school was the special field trips my class got to take. You would hear the year before about going on this boat or heading to this

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    Let Freedom Ring?

    • Date: April 20, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_564" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Taft Voting, by Bain News Service, publisher, 1912, Library of Congress, LC-B2- 2442-16"][/caption] It’s against the law to photograph certain things, at certain times, in certain places. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently reported that a photograph of an election ballot in a mayoral race—showing the name

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  11. Ross Island, Antarctica. Alexander Stevens, chief scientist and geologist looks south. Hut Point Peninsula in the background. Cellulose nitrate processed sheet film negative, found in Captain Scott's 1911 expedition base, Cape Evans, Antarctica, by Antarctica Heritage Trust conservators. Photo by Ernest Shackleton's Ross Sea Party, 1914-1917.

    Link Love: 1/3/2014

    • Date: January 3, 2014
    • 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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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Carol O’Donnell

    • Date: November 4, 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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    Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s

    • Date: August 25, 2010
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How

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  17. SERC blog post as appears online, with embedded YouTube video on river

    Fashion in Place of Fish: A Glimpse into Web Preservation

    • Date: August 13, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Why would a fashion video appear on an environmental blog? That’s the question I found myself asking while performing web quality assurance (aka web QA) on the blog for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has more to do with fish than it does with fashion. As an intern in the Digital Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, my work in

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    A First Sight

    • Date: December 24, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3939" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Prehistoric paintings, Lascaux caves, France. Photo courtesy of Prof saxx, Wikimedia Commons."][/caption] Roger Shattuck, teacher, writer, and cultural critic (The Banquet Years, his study of turn of the 20th century French avant-garde stands as one of the best cultural histories ever produced), once wrote

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    “A Formal Voice at the Institution”

    • Date: June 18, 2020
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: Revisiting the call to create the Smithsonian Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee.

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  23. Unidentified woman, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Annual Call for Help Identifying Women Scientists

    • Date: March 8, 2012
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: This is our fourth annual call for help identifying scientists from the Archives’ collections for Women's History Month.

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