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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Isabel C. Pérez Farfante

    • Date: September 1, 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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  3. A screenshot of Cambridge University Library’s new digital archive of Newton.

    Link Love: 12/16/2011

    • Date: December 16, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Archives Puzzles: 100 Years of the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 23, 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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  7. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

    The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

    • Date: November 17, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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    Smithsonian Scientists at Work

    • Date: April 20, 2017
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==75408]Scientific research has been integral to the Smithsonian, from its founding to today. The Smithsonian's founder, Englishman James Smithson, saw in the U.S. (according to his biographer, Heather Ewing) "a place of the future" that could support "science and progress for humanity." He believed that scientists were "citizens of the world" and that the

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    New Flickr Commons Set: Mary Agnes Chase Field Books

    • Date: March 22, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: A new set of Flickr Commons images from the field books of Mary Agnes Chase—a grass specialist, botanist, and suffragist.

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  13. The mast and signal flag raised on Marchena Island by the castaways (detail),

    The Empress of the Galapagos Islands, Part 4

    • Date: November 7, 2011
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. The Last of Mr. Lincoln

    • Date: October 4, 2012
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: A file in the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ accession records tells the story of an historic piece of Lincoln memorabilia that didn't wind up in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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  17. Middlegate Japanese Gardens, Pass Christian, Mississippi.

    Link Love: 8/26/2011

    • Date: August 26, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: How photos from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens help preserve the memory of gardens (such as the Middlegate Japanese Gardens pictured above) that are now gone. The Museum of the Future has a great roundup of videos and blogs about museums, technology, and media. An update on earthquake damage at the Smithsonian, and hear Smithsonian Secretary (and earthquake

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  19. Photograph of Manning holding up an award in the shape of a round dish.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine Lemmon Manning

    • Date: June 2, 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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    For All the World to See

    • Date: February 10, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

    • Date: May 19, 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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