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    See Here: 12/23/2010

    • Date: December 23, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Explorers of the Danish Fifth Thule Expedition, Born in Greenland of a Danish missionary father and an Inuit mother, Knud Johan Victor Rasmussen, 1879-1933, was a Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist, who between 1921 and 1924, led a small band of colleagues in a journey of investigation across arctic North America from

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    See Here: 1/26/2011

    • Date: January 26, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="United States National Museum Taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo, on one of his field trips to the Canal Zone Biological Area, Panama, is followed around by his devoted companion, a Baird's tapir, February 28, 1951, by Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7006, Alexander Wetmore

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    See Here: 12/8/2010

    • Date: December 8, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="371" caption="An exhibit case filled with West African wood carvings from an exhibition of the Herbert Ward African Collection in the United States National Museum (USNM), now the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), which opened March 1, 1922, Herbert Ward was an explorer, soldier, author, and artist, who collected objects of

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    See Here: 2/23/2011

    • Date: February 23, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Lunch has been set out on a hill at 2000 feet on Cerro Campana, Panama, Sitting on the hill from L to R are: Harold Trapido, Shirley Gage (smoking a cigarette), Graham Bell Fairchild, Watson M. Perrygo, and Marshall Hertig (with a cigarette in his mouth), 1951, Alexander Wetmore, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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    See Here: 6/28/2010

    • Date: June 28, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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    See Here: 8/19/2010

    • Date: August 19, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="410" caption="Visitors viewing "Friendship 7" in the Quonset Hut of the National Air and Space Museum in the South Yard, "Friendship 7" is the Mercury spacecraft in which astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr., became the first American to orbit the Earth, On February 20, 1962, Glenn circled the Earth three times, late 1960s - c. 1975, by

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    See Here: 9/1/2010

    • Date: September 1, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="418" caption="Loyal B. Aldrich (standing), who worked for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1908-1955 and was its director from 1944 to 1955, and two unidentified persons (one of whom is a woman), ride a tram up the side of Mt. Wilson, California, which served as a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory station from 1905 to

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  15. Botanist Mary Agnes Chase was and expert in grasses, as well as a suffragette.

    Vote Women in Science

    • Date: August 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is that scrappy time of year where we ask you to nominate your favorite Smithsonian collection, experience, or in the Archives' case, people. We typcially refer to them as groundbreakers. We have some stiff competition in the science category with the Hope Diamond and the 3D Lincoln Life Mask, however, we feel Smithsonian female scientists have made such a significant

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    Wipe That Grin Off Your Face!

    • Date: June 2, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet

    • Date: June 26, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Marie-Hélène Sachet joined the Smithsonian in 1966 as a special advisor in tropical botany at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. When the program ended in 1968, she was transferred to the Department of Botany, where she remained, eventually serving as a curator in the division, until her death in 1986. #Groundbreaker

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  21. Image is of Karla Billups in front of the National Museum of Natural History.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karla E. Billups

    • Date: February 23, 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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  23. Brenner wears headgear that covers her eyes. She holds a tall thin paint brush to a cast.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Phyllis Rudstrom Brenner

    • Date: January 19, 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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