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    1. Color photograph of volunteer Joan Gilder siting in a preservation lab.

      Volunteer Spotlight: Joan Gilder

      • Date: April 24, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Joan Gilder has been a volunteer with the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Preservation Team for two decades, and has worked to treat many of our collections in order to increase their lifespan and improve access. She has been an invaluable asset to the Archives since she first began, and we are thrilled to share a little more about her story.What did you do before you began

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      Science Service, Up Close: Telephone Books, Wax Turkeys, and Talking Chickens

      • Date: March 8, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of Exhibits, Margaret Jane Russell Roller (1888-1973) had begun to specialize in fabricating lifelike wax models of food and animals.

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    5. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

      • Date: March 30, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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    7. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

      Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

      • Date: November 10, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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      Art and Photography at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 4, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Washington, D.C. 1975, from the series Archaeological Series, 6 Inch Contour Gauge, 1975, by Kenneth Josephson, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.828."][/caption] In 1981, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (at the time it was named

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    11. B&W photograph of steel crossbeams above a wide open room.

      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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      Looking for Women Managers of the Smithsonian’s Museums

      • Date: March 16, 2022
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When did women begin to manage Smithsonian museums? Meet Grace Dunham Guest who was a key staff member in opening the Freer Gallery of Art in 1923.

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      A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson

      • Date: September 29, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.

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      Celebrating World Cultures—and Our Own

      • Date: July 1, 2010
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Smithsonian Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1913-2001) riding a scooter at the 1974 Folklife Festival in the Mississippi delta section, with a cotton field behind him, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 613, Box 269, Folder: SDR Photos, Negative number:

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      Missing Manuscripts, Burning Banners, and a “Matter of Heart”

      • Date: September 20, 2018
      • Description: Curator Keith E. Melder's efforts to create the first permanent exhibit on African American history at the National Museum of American History was successful, but its journey faced difficulties and hatred from the public.

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    21. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Tracks, 1882, Harpers Weekly, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78090.

      Quidditch in Henry Park?

      • Date: April 3, 2014
      • Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?

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      It Takes a Village: Anniversary of the Anacostia Museum Opening

      • Date: September 15, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8698,size=300,left]Today marks the forty-fourth anniversary of the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum (ACM), then called the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum. The ACM opened in 1967 at the old Carver Theater in the Anacostia section of Washington, DC. The “experimental community museum” was first suggested by the Smithsonian’s eighth Secretary S.

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