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      What are You Watching?

      • Date: August 22, 2013
      • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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    3. Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, Edward Arthur Milne, and Ernest William Barnes, London, 1931. Left to Right: astronomer and Catholic priest Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître (1894-1966), University of Louvain, Belgium; British physicist Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940); British astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne (1896-1950); and mathematician and theologian Ernest William Barnes (1874-1953), Anglican Bishop of Birmingham. They were appearing together at a British A

      Science Service, Up Close: Considering the Universe

      • Date: September 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: At a September 27, 1931, symposium about the evolution of the universe, Watson Davis photographed astronomer Abbé Georges Henri Joseph Édouard Lemaître, physicist Sir Oliver Lodge, astrophysicist Edward Arthur Milne, and Anglican bishop and mathematician Ernest William Barnes.

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      Ephraim George Squier

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_13396,size=200,left]Ephraim George Squier was a self-educated journalist and diplomat who made substantial contributions to the archaeology and ethnology of the Americas. Born in 1821, he worked as a journalist in New York and Connecticut before moving to Ohio. There Squier developed an interest in the large earthen mounds believed to

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    7. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

      Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

      • Date: October 21, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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    9. Blog Post

      What’s in a Name? Uncovering Early Women Computers

      • Date: December 3, 2019
      • Description: We’re uncovering names of some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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      Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator

      • Date: August 4, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States National Museum.

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    13. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

      Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

      • Date: August 17, 2021
      • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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    15. Finding Aid

      SIA Acc. 19-202, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of the Director, Subject Files, 1963, 1984-2019

      • Date: 1984 1984-2019 1963, 1984-2019
      • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA Acc. 12-060, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Department of Entomology, Departmental Records, 1962-2002

      • Date: 1962 1962-2002
      • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Department of Entomology
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    19. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

      Thank you, Volunteers!

      • Date: April 23, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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      SIA Acc. 95-041, National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Office of the Director, Subject Files, 1984-1992, with records from 1978

      • Date: 1984 1984-1992 1984-1992, with records from 1978
      • Creator: National Museum of Natural History. Office of the Director
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    23. Portrait of Arthur Wilson Stelfox.

      Arthur Wilson Stelfox: Another Gift from the United Kingdom

      • Date: July 23, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: With a large personal collection of specimens, Arthur Wilson Stelfox took steps to ensure his work will go on for decades to come.

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