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    1. Two women in white lab coats and hair covers lean over a large flag with red and white stripes.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Suzanne Thomassen-Kraus

      • Date: April 13, 2022
      • 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. 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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    5. Long Exposure Photographs of Fireflies, by Yume Cyan.

      Link Love: 6/7/2013

      • Date: June 7, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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      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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    9. It's National Radio Day and The World Is Yours

      • Date: August 20, 2020
      • Description: This National Radio Day, we’re taking a look (and listen) back to a few recent blog posts that have featured clips from episodes of Smithsonian’s first radio program, The World Is Yours.

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      Behind the Portrait: Frances Densmore and Mountain Chief

      • Date: April 28, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Mountain Chief, Chief of Montana Blackfeet, in Native Dress With Bow, Arrows, and Lance, Listening to Song Being Played On Phonograph and Interpreting It in Sign Language to Frances Densmore, Ethnologist, March 1916, by Harris & Ewing, Smithsonian National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] I received an interesting

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    13. Black circular device with a tape measure and description cards below it.

      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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    15. Dr. Clifford Evans and Dr. Betty J. Meggers, anthropologists at Museum of Natural History, 1968.

      Betty J. Meggers: Pioneer in Environmental Archaeology

      • Date: March 7, 2017
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.

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    17. Nicholas V. Artamonoff, Temple of Serapis.

      Link Love: 1/13/2012

      • Date: January 13, 2012
      • 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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    19. Hypsometer sketch featured in a book.

      Joseph Henry Hypes Hypsometers

      • Date: October 29, 2019
      • Description: Although initially skeptical about the effectiveness of the hypsometer, Secretary Joseph Henry soon recognized the value of the instrument, which he discovered from his colleagues in the scientific field.

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    21. Mary Foote Henderson dressed to the nines as a Washington, D.C. hostess, by the Brady Studio. Record Unit 7075 - The Henderson Family Papers, 1868-1923, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      A Hidden Woman

      • Date: March 20, 2014
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: An extraordinary look at a woman in the Archives collections, Mary Foote Henderson.

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    23. Purple/pink animated gif of nature scene with moon in the sky showing line connecting partial moon which designates south.

      Link Love: 9/1/2017

      • Date: September 1, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Memorable animated gifs for the directionally-challenged! [via Atlas Obscura]Can't wait for Spring 2019 to see the next GoT? A neural network has written the first chapter. [via Motherboard]The history of toys that have enduring popularity (think Slinky and time will tell on the fidget spinner). [via Inc.]The British Library is considering a single digital portal. [via

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