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    1. A Quest for the First Asian Employee

      • Date: May 10, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A search for the first Asian employee at the Smithsonian leads to Kuang-zung Tung.

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    3. A military pension card for Harrison Lomax. He filed in Virginia and is listed in the class

      Harrison Lomax: Smithsonian Employee, Civil War Veteran, Husband, Father

      • Date: September 1, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As a laborer at the Smithsonian from 1882 until his death in 1918, Harrison Lomax served the Institution’s top leaders. A letter in our collections that he wrote to Secretary Samuel P. Langley is an example of the ways in which African American employees advocated for themselves in order to earn promotions and raises.

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    5. Curator of Paleontology Division Charles Lewis Gazin looks on as vertebrate paleontology preparators Norman Boss (center) and Arlton Murray (right) prepare a giant sloth skeleton in the Vertebrate Preparation Lab for exhibit at the National Museum of Natural History, 1940s. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. MNH-37289B.

      Arlton C. Murray, Smithsonian Employee Who Became a Creation Scientist

      • Date: December 26, 2013
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: The search to prove/disprove the office story of Arlton C. Murray, the Smithsonian employee who became a creation scientist.

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      Archives Puzzles: Smithsonian’s First Paid Employee

      • Date: August 9, 2021
      • 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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      The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian

      • Date: March 27, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.

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      Are You Arty or Hearty?

      • Date: May 19, 2011
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: “Are you arty or hearty?” As family legend has it, this hilarious question was asked of one of our family’s old friends upon his arrival at Jesus College, Oxford University in 1932 as a Rhodes Scholar. Well, as the story goes, it turns out that he was hearty and intellectually gifted (physics). And, the same can be said of lots of Smithsonian employees.

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    13. In a series of four negative images, men and women are pictured clapping and speaking.

      Spreading a Little Kindness Here at Smithsonian

      • Date: November 13, 2018
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Couldn’t we all use a little more warmth and kindness in the world? For World Kindness Day, we’re highlighting acts of kindness by Smithsonian employees that were featured in the staff newsletter, "The Torch."

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    15. Smithsonian Torch article about the formation of the SI Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, March 1992. Len Hirsch is pictured, right.

      Smithsonian GLOBE: A History

      • Date: June 6, 2017
      • Description: In celebration of Pride 2017, a look back at the history of the Smithsonian GLOBE (Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Employees) organization.

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    17. Portrait of a woman wearing a nurses uniform that includes a small, white hat. A white building with tall columns is in the background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Verdine J. Frederick

      • Date: July 21, 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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    19. Five Smithsonian employees provide answers to the question: What is your family’s signature Thanksgiving dish?

      The Smithsonian Point of View: Pumpkin Pie, Pez, and Pastrami

      • Date: November 28, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Get to know some Smithsonian staff, from their favorite holiday dishes to their dream celebrity dinner guests, through a former series in The Torch.

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      Creating a Digital Smithsonian

      • Date: September 28, 2010
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_8323" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Smithsonian employees attend the 2010 Smithsonian Digitization Fair. Photograph by Michael Barnes."][/caption] For two days in mid-September, Smithsonian Institution employees gathered for a digitization fair to share ideas and hear about some neat projects. Even those who work here are impressed by

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    23. A woman stands in front of a glass case with dresses on mannequins.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Anthea M. Hartig

      • Date: May 15, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Anthea M. Hartig, Elizabeth MacMillan Director, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, became the first woman to ever lead the museum in 2019. She oversees more than 250 employees, a budget of $40 million, and 1.8 million objects. #Groundbreaker

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