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    See Here: 4/19/2011

    • Date: April 19, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="335" caption="Sophie Lutterlough, hired in 1943 as the Smithsonian’s first female elevator operator, sits in front of a microscope in the Department of Entomology, For 14 years Lutterlough ran the elevators, but moved on to a second career after asking Dr. J. F. Gates Clarke if there were any openings in his department, and being hired

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    See Here: 6/17/2011

    • Date: June 17, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="In El Valle, Cocle, Panama, on 31 March 1951, Sixth Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore and taxidermist Watson M. Perrygo at his left are outside a building sitting at a table preparing bird specimens for study at the Natural History Museum, March 31, 1951, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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    We Apologize For This Interruption in Service . . .

    • Date: November 20, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="368" caption="Pat Tilko Connects the World to the Smithsonian, 1994, by Jeff Tinsley, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-015 Box 2 Folder July 1994, Negative Number: 94-6139-17A."][/caption] We just wanted to give our readers a head’s up that this weekend, there will be disruptions on the servers across

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    We Welcome You!

    • Date: June 4, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is the season of 90 degree days, the Folklife Festival, ice cream trucks, and the sound of the Smithsonian carousel playing its fun house music in the distance. As someone who has to commute to and from work by bicycle through the legions of tourist buses, crowds of umbrellas, and FBI paraphernalia, I try to replace my slight annoyance in being delayed by remembering that

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    "Woman's Work"

    • Date: March 13, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In June, 2008, the Smithsonian was the 4th institution to join the Flickr Commons . One of the things I enjoy most as a visitor to the Commons is searching on a random word or phrase and seeing how that idea is represented. Six members of the Commons posted photos and tagged with ‘womensday’ in honor of the 2009 International Women's Day. I searched on ‘work’ and other related

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Wikipedia Edition, Part 1!

    • Date: March 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Herpetologist Doris Mabel Cochran and caleopterist Doris Holmes Blake now have Wikipedia pages thanks to our volunteers. Join us Saturday, March 19th, to help write more women into history! Learn how Wikipedia volunteers are helping to write notable women into history.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau

    • Date: March 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Helene C. Muller-Landau, Lead Scientist, CTFS Global Forest Carbon Initiative, has researched the patterns, causes, and consequences of plant diversity for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute since 2008. As leader of the program, Muller-Landau strives to implement standardized measurements of forest carbon stocks and fluxes across forest research sites.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sharon F. Patton

    • Date: September 25, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Sharon F. Patton, Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, 2003-2008, oversaw the museum’s 9,000 African art objects and welcomed the distinguished Walt Disney-Tishman African Art Collection. Under her leadership, the museum opened its first traveling exhibition and established a visiting artists program. #Groundbreaker

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  17. A man and woman, Flaherty, look over story boards on a desk.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Stacy A. Flaherty

    • Date: September 8, 2021
    • 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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  19. A person stands in a room with scientific instruments. She appears to be working on an experiment.

    Smithsonian Women in Science

    • Date: September 17, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn how we’re creating a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  21. A scene of a New England schoolroom.

    Archives Puzzles: Getting Schooled

    • Date: November 9, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  23. Exterior view of the Arts and Industries Building.

    Archives Puzzles: Looking Toward the FUTURES

    • Date: August 16, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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