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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi

    • Date: June 6, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Michèle Gates Moresi, Supervisory Curator of Collections, Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, oversaw the acquisition of nearly 37,000 collection objects for the new museum. #Groundbreaker

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    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    Muskets Issued to Smithsonian as Civil War Begins

    • Date: April 20, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Throughout the next months, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about the Smithsonian and the Civil War in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_496,size=200,left]This month marks the 150th anniversary of the start of one of the most tumultuous periods in American history—the Civil War (view resources from the

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    Seeing another world, this one behind the Iron Curtain…

    • Date: May 26, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="293" caption="Completed SA-2 missile site showing characteristic Star of David pattern, National Security Archive, The George Washington University"][/caption] Strangely beautiful surveillance photographs shot from an American U-2 spy plane triggered a terrifying nuclear standoff, The Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. In a new click!

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  9. Fred Rogers Donates his Red Knit Cardigan Sweater to National Museum of American History

    Sneak Peek 4/22/2019

    • Date: April 22, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Fred Rogers donates his red knit cardigan sweater to National Museum of American History, November 20, 1984, by Dane Penland, SIA Acc. 11-009, 84-15518-19.

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  11. Charles Jones, “Vegetables, Bean Runner”

    Link Love: 10/28/2016

    • Date: October 28, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Beautiful 19th century images of vegetables found at a flea market, by Charles Jones. [via Hyperallergic]Saving Langley Research Center's records, and in turn, American aviation history. [via NASA]The Smithsonian National Museum of American History's Archives Center and Libraries has acquired Jane and Michael Stern's ephemera from their foodie roadtrips. [via O Say Can You

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  13. Link Love: 10/25/2019

    • Date: October 25, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  15. Official portrait of female astronaut in spacesuit standing next to two flags.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kathryn Sullivan

    • Date: October 11, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in 2017. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Visitors to the National Zoo's Invertebrate exhibit. National Zoological Park, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 6/20/2014

    • Date: June 20, 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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  19. The Business of Slavery section is located in the heart of the Merchant Era in the

    Link Love: 6/19/2015

    • Date: June 19, 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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  21. Painting Restoration in the Freer Gallery of Art, 1967

    Sneak Peek 2/2/2015

    • Date: February 2, 2015
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Takashi Sugiura and daughter Kuma restore a painting in the Freer Gallery of Art, March 9, 1967, Image Number: OPA-1006-04A.

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  23. Letter from S. M. Huddleson, M.D. to Mr. J. Bundy, Superintendant of the Freer Gallery of Art. Dated February 9, 1924. Accession 02-027: Freer Gallery of Art Superintendent of Construction, Correspondence, 1913-1936, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image no. SIA2015-006882.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Odd Job Requests

    • Date: June 2, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Miscellaneous Adventures - Odd Job Requests at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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