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      Science Service, Up Close: Field Work at Yellowstone

      • Date: July 2, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Who is the man at right, standing in Yellowstone National Park with Dutch geologist Henrik Albertus Brouwer?

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    3. Portrait of Mara Mayor.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Mara Mayor

      • Date: November 10, 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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    5. The Normal Rock Creek by William H. Holmes

      William Henry Holmes

      • Date: November 29, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The multi-talented William Henry Holmes contributed to the Smithsonian as an artist, explorer, geologist, archeologist and museum director.

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    7. Lerner and Hisrhhorn stand in a gallery space.

      An Audio Anniversary: Groundbreaking at the Hirshhorn

      • Date: January 12, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Link Love: 8/19/2011

      • Date: August 19, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: It’s an old fashioned card catalogue full of jokes! The National Museum of American History gives insight into Phyllis Diller’s “gag file”—50,000 annotated jokes featured in a new exhibition at the museum. How are institutions preserving born digital art? Here’s an article about Rhizome’s ArtBase—an archive of digital artworks [via the National Digital Information

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    11. Untitled c. 1905, RU7179_Box1_F21_Heller05 [SPI_1655].

      An Ode to the Bicycle

      • Date: May 8, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Time to dust off your velocipedes and bone-shakers! The League of American Bicyclists have declared May to be “National Bike Month” and have several events lined up to celebrate biking everywhere; Bike to Work Day (May 16), Bike to School Day (May 7), and Cyclofemme (May 11) .I love picking a theme or keyword and browsing through the Smithsonian’s collections.

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      Women's History Month: Celebrating 6 years!

      • Date: March 4, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Follow along with the Smithsonian Institution Archives as we celebrate Women's History Month!

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    15. Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe at age 19, wearing her Cartier engagement ring (part of the sale). Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s.

      James Smithson and “The Duchess”: The Sotheby’s Sale of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe’s Property

      • Date: May 27, 2015
      • Description: As a remarkable auction of artifacts of a bygone aristocratic world takes place, we look at a surprising connection between Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe and the Smithsonian’s founding benefactor, James Smithson

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    17. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

      Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

      • Date: January 28, 2021
      • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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    19. A sketch by William Henry Holmes, Cozumel, Mexico, 1895.

      Sketching with William Henry Holmes

      • Date: December 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Celebrate the life and work of William Henry Holmes with coloring pages created from sketches in his field notes!

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    21. Lucile Mann, dressed in high socks, boots, and slacks, stands next to her husband in British Guiana during an expedition in 1931.

      Finding Lucile Mann: Tropical Fish and Zoological History

      • Date: March 11, 2021
      • Description: While Lucile Mann’s contributions to zoological history have often been reduced to her work raising infant animals, her work with the National Zoo and resulting publications demonstrate that her legacy should be reexamined.

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    23. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

      Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

      • Date: October 24, 2019
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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