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    Snapshots at the Shore

    • Date: July 7, 2009
    • Description: To celebrate the season, we have a series of posts looking at images of summer in the Smithsonian photo archives and collections. To start things off, Mary Savig, Archives Specialist at the Archives of American Art, describes how artists recharged in the summer months. Like eager vacationers everywhere, artists have long escaped to the beach on hot summer days. The shore

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    Link Love: 5/29/2015

    • Date: May 29, 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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    An Accidental Archivist...

    • Date: July 15, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: I was reading one of Holland Cotter’s reviews of an art exhibition in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, when I came across a description of a show that was about to close and wished I’d been able to see. At a space run by the Esopus Foundation, Bob Warner, a New York artist and optician, was opening, one box at a time, the cartons of material that another artist, Ray

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  7. Anthropologist Marvette Pérez, National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marvette Pérez

    • Date: July 20, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Anthropologist Marvette Pérez, National Museum of American History, was the Smithsonian's first Latino history curator, an accomplished percussionist and vocalist, and collector who acquired works representing Latino popular culture & music. #Groundbreaker

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  9. Florence Merriam Bailey Diary (1874). Entries March 1-2 with drawings. Record Unit 7417 - Florence Merriam Bailey Papers, 1865-1942, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Outstanding Women in Ornithology: Florence Merriam Bailey

    • Date: March 25, 2014
    • Description: With women’s history month upon us, SIA would like to recognize ornithologist and nature writer Florence Merriam Bailey.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye

    • Date: August 9, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Folklorist, visual artist, and curator, Dr. Diana Baird N’Diaye, Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, is a honorary professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and researches anthropology, folklore, fashion (dress), and visual art in Africa, the Caribbean, and the U.S. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Photo of Pluto taken by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft.

    Link Love: 7/17/2015

    • Date: July 17, 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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    Now you see it, sometimes you don’t, but thank goodness for archives

    • Date: May 13, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week

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    Link Love: 11/30/2012

    • Date: November 30, 2012
    • 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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  19. Thomas Downing, Center Grid, circa 1960.

    Link Love: 11/11/2016

    • Date: November 11, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • 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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  21. Introducing Here At The Smithsonian

    • Date: December 29, 2020
    • Description: We are starting a new monthly blog series featuring episodes of Here At The Smithsonian.

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  23. Color photo of woman giving presentation with image of suffragette projected in background.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lisa Kathleen Graddy

    • Date: April 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Deputy Chair of political history at the National Museum of American History, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, chooses artifacts to represent the American political landscape, and has curated popular exhibits on the first ladies and the women's suffrage movement. #Groundbreaker

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