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    First collective Smithsonian staff photo?!?

    • Date: July 1, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7327" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="The Smithsonian Institution Building, "The Castle""][/caption] When I'm walking around the National Mall, I often hear people exclaim, "There's the Smithsonian!" as they point to the large red Smithsonian Castle near the Metro exit; something I also would have assumed before my first visit to the Mall.

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  3. Letter - Mary Agnes Chase to Albert Spear Hitchcock, July 5, 1935.

    The Other Side of Mary Agnes Chase

    • Date: March 19, 2015
    • Description: Mary Agnes Chase is known for her extensive contributions to the study of grasses, but who was Mary Agnes Chase? Why is her private life so shrouded in mystery, and how can we find out more.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet

    • Date: June 26, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet joined the Smithsonian in 1966 as a special advisor in tropical botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. When the program ended in 1968, she was transferred to the Department of Botany, where she remained, eventually serving as a curator in the division, until her death in 1986. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau

    • Date: March 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau, Lead Scientist, CTFS Global Forest Carbon Initiative, has researched the patterns, causes, and consequences of plant diversity for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2008. As leader of the program, Muller-Landau strives to implement standardized measurements of forest carbon stocks and fluxes across forest research sites.

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  9. Book opened to show two pages. The lefthand page is blank and the righthand page contains the beginning of an article titled “Address of Norman J. Colman before the Missouri Editors and Publishers’ Association.”

    Not Your Average Scrapbook

    • Date: November 3, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A scrapbook isn’t always a collection of photographs and memorabilia. For C.V. Riley, it was a place to keep articles.

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    Don't Miss the Common Ground This Weekend!

    • Date: October 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: If you happen to walk by a museum or a library one evening this weekend, and there's a light on inside, or perhaps a flicker in the window, don't pass it by. There's a good chance that you stumbled on The Common Ground: a community curated meetup. The Common Ground gatherings are being hosted by museums and libraries around the world to celebrate The Commons on Flickr and the

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    Ecards for Women's History Month

    • Date: March 16, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Women's History Month is not only a good month to recognize and learn about inspiring women who have come before us, it is also the time to recognize women in our own lives who make a difference. If you have a mother, daughter, sister, spouse, or friend you'd like to recognize, drop her a line. For women who are inclined to a life of adventure, you may to send the Charlotte

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    Keep the click! Stories Coming!

    • Date: April 9, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_450" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Yes we cancan have peace!"][/caption] As you can see from the exuberant photo above, we’ve been getting some great visitor contributions to our most recent click! photography changes everything call for entry in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. We just published the first visitor

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  17. The culture and university district of “Olympicopolis” will be created on this triangular site (4.5 acres). The site is in front of the London Aquatics Centre and a few hundred yards from the former Olympic Stadium and ArcelorMittal Orbit sculpture and observation tower. Courtesy of Kevin Allen/London Legacy Development Corp. (LLDC)

    Link Love: 1/30/2015

    • Date: January 30, 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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    Stop. Or They’ll shoot!

    • Date: April 17, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_534" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Traffic at 5:30 on Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich., by Arthur Siegel, 1942 July, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW36-763 "][/caption] I remember my surprise the day a traffic summons arrived in my mailbox, illustrated with the close-up and pixilated images of my car and license plate

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  21. Portrait of Cobral.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anna Escobedo Cabral

    • Date: August 18, 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. Freedom! Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement by Diana Davies

    • Date: January 18, 2010
    • Description: In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2010, we selected images from the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage's Diana Davies Photograph Collection. Davies began her career as a musician and became a photojournalist in the 1960s. During that time she documented Newport Folk Festivals, anti-poverty and Civil Rights movements, and farm workers' struggles. Her images,

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