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    1. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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    3. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    5. Jacobs sits across from a woman at a desk and takes notes.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Madeleine Jacobs

      • Date: July 29, 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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      Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

      • Date: March 11, 2014
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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      The Archives’ Hidden Women

      • Date: March 15, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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    11. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

      Open Minds Open Doors

      • Date: March 15, 2012
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    15. Alison Reppert Gerber, Preservation Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: June 30, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to our new Preservation Coordinator, Alison Reppert Gerber.

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    17. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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    19. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

      Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

      • Date: May 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers

      • Date: April 25, 2019
      • Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.

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    23. Translation of the Prize Questions in the Class of Sciences from the Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium (page 1) , 1874, Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Belgium, Record Unit 32, Box 1, Folder: Miscellaneous 37, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2014-04186.

      The Mysterious Miscellaneous 37

      • Date: May 13, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: It is too hard to know everything that lives inside an archival collection. Join us in opening up some of our miscellaneous folders and discover what is inside!

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