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      Biodiversity Illustrated

      • Date: June 30, 2011
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: While the Smithsonian Institution is perhaps better known for its museums that pepper the landscape of the National Mall in Washington DC, its devotion to scientific research easily matches its dedication to collecting, preserving, and displaying artifacts of cultural and historical importance. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) started off as a small field

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    3. The David Crockett Graham Field Book Collection: A Portal for Chinese Culture and Biodiversity

      • Date: June 21, 2012
      • Description: A closer look into the life and work of biologist, anthropologist and missionary David Crockett Graham.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Ashley Egan

      • Date: July 25, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Research botanist Dr. Ashley Egan, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, works with the museum's 86,000 legume specimens to understand the processes and patterns that have formed biodiversity throughout the course of evolution. #Groundbreaker

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      Celebrating Women’s History Month with #HerNaturalHistory

      • Date: March 7, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This month, we invite you to follow along as we participate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women natural scientists in our collections. And don’t forget to head to the Smithsonian Transcription Center to help us transcribe notes from women working in the field.

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    9. Portrait of Nancy Gwinn.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy E. Gwinn

      • Date: September 30, 2020
      • 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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      Spooky, Scary Page Frights!

      • Date: October 13, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: This October cultural institutions around the world will be getting a little spooky and scary for Page Frights, a month-long look at our creepiest collection finds.

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    13. Portrait of a young woman with short, wavy hair. She is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marsha E. Sitnik

      • Date: June 1, 2022
      • 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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      #AskAnArchivist 2017: You Asked, We Answered

      • Date: October 19, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On October 4th, 2017, we joined archivists around the U.S. for SAA's #AskAnArchivist on Twitter. We did finger warm-ups and dug up our tips and resources to answer your questions! We gave tips on preserving social media and autograph books. And things got a bit weird when people started sharing their favorite archival biodiversity photos, but fun nonetheless. We hope you enjoy

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    17. 9 colorful illustrations of caterpillars on off-white paper

      Link Love: 2/2/2018

      • Date: February 2, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Gorgeous rights-free illustrations of caterpillars from a German entomological by Christian Friedrich Vogel volume in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. [via Public Domain Review]A look at the first multispecies experimental coral microcosm in the world installed at our National Museum of Natural History in 1980. [via Ocean Portal]You can explore over 30,000 NY Historic

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    19. Colorful white translucent salamander with 6 purplish tendrils protruding from its head.

      Link Love: 11/24/2017

      • Date: November 24, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A salamander, the axolotl, found in Mexico that once numbered in the 6000s/square kilometer is now down to 35. [via Scientific American]As we know, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has a lot of gorgeous images of natural specimen, in fact over 2 million of them, and it includes some from the Archives! [via Open Culture]Beatles fans, John Lennon's stolen diary was recovered by

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      An Intern’s Guide on How to Digitize a Field Book

      • Date: August 14, 2018
      • Description: What is a field book and how do you digitize one? These were the first two questions I asked when I came on board at the Archives as the Summer 2018 Field Book Project Digitization Intern. During the course of my internship, I discovered the answer to both questions and learned a lot about digitization practices and standards at the Smithsonian.According to the Biodiversity

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    23. Ruby slippers, ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

      Link Love: 10/21/2016

      • Date: October 21, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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