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  1. Three men, two women and a child pulling rope to ring bell.

    Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture

    • Date: September 26, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are

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    50 Years of Folklife

    • Date: June 29, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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  5. Keepsake pocket bank for the National Negro Memorial, ca. 1926

    The First Quest for a National African American Museum

    • Date: September 22, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: As National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, let’s look at the first efforts to establish a National African American Museum.

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  7. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 29, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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    Going Back to the Smithsonian’s Future

    • Date: February 8, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Today on The Bigger Picture, we are highlighting the anniversary of the 1927 Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian which brought together people from across the country – scientists, academics, politicians, and private citizens – to advise on the future role of the Smithsonian. For this, we bring you a piece from Smithsonian Archives Program Assistant Lisa Fthenakis,

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  11. Black and white photograph of two young boys sweeping sidewalk in front of museum entrance.

    Fifty Years and Many More to Come!

    • Date: September 12, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Friday, September 15th, 2017 marks the 50th Anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum. Originally named the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum, Secretary Ripley envisioned this as a place to reach out to black residents of Washington, DC who were not seeing themselves in the museums on the Mall. Reporting on the opening of the museum, Secretary Ripley writes that

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  13. Volunteer Petrina Foti with the NMAH Computer Collections

    Volunteer Appreciation: Petrina Foti

    • Date: April 11, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month by recognizing Petrina Foti, whose work contributes to our oral history collections.

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  15. A woman in a white polo holds up a certificate that reads:

    Women in the Office of Protection Services

    • Date: March 12, 2019
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.

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  17. Portrait of Roxie Laybourne

    Sharing A Love of Birds: Roxie Laybourne

    • Date: January 5, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_308449,size=250,left]Though Roxie Laybourne may be a well-known topic here in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, there is a good reason she is so popular. From good advice to her pioneering career to modern day inspiration, her work offers new insight each time we turn to it. Laybourne’s interest in natural history began long before she began her

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  19. Secretary Adams: A Fascination with Fieldwork

    • Date: September 13, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Learn more about Secretary Robert Adams through his oral histories, which are newly available for research.

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  21. Telephone Operators, C.1914-1917, by Harris & Ewing, glass negative, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-hec-04117.

    April Fool’s, Mr. Lyon!

    • Date: March 31, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The National Zoo gets flooded with phone calls in a 1919 April Fool’s prank.

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  23. Scan of a 1938 Washington Post article.

    Camera Craze Comes to the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 26, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: It would be hard to imagine stepping into a Smithsonian museum today and not seeing a single camera. Digital cameras and smart phones with cameras are so completely a part of today’s museum-going experience that - unless a flash goes off in your face – you probably wouldn’t notice the camera next to you. However, in 1938, you would have seen a very different sight. On August

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