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      Both Sides Now

      • Date: April 13, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="197" caption="Candice Bergen, October 1981, LIFE Magazine, © Time Inc."][/caption] Most of us know what it’s like to be the subject of a photograph and to take one, to be seen and to see. But some of us, due to unusual circumstances, know more about that than others. In her  1984 autobiography, Knock Wood, Candice Bergen wrote with

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    3. In four frames a woman is speaking to an audience that is not pictured. She is stranding behind a table. A mirror is above the table. On the table are bowls and utensils.

      Link Love: 3/1/2019

      • Date: March 1, 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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      The Photography of Art

      • Date: November 27, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    7. Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator

      • Date: March 22, 2011
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of

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    9. Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People

      • Date: March 21, 2013
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.

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    11. Weird and Wonderful: The Surprising Mrs. Hilda Hempl Heller

      • Date: May 16, 2013
      • Description: A brief look into the life of Hilda Hempl Heller – scientist and enthusiast of life.

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    13. Clarence S. Darrow (center) standing near Rhea County Courthouse.

      Hearing Voices

      • Date: October 20, 2011
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. An excerpt from the Braggs'

      A Father, a Son, and a Nobel Prize

      • Date: December 10, 2015
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the unique journey to discovery of father-son Nobel Laureates William Henry and William Lawrence Bragg. The Braggs won the Nobel Prize in Physics 100 years ago.

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    17. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

      • Date: August 20, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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