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      Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 14, 2018
      • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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      Now you see it, sometimes you don’t, but thank goodness for archives

      • Date: May 13, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Churchill High School Pep Rally, 1978, Geoff Winningham, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.1667."][/caption] Years ago, when the National Endowment for the Arts had a Visual Arts Program to give out individual artist grants, a week

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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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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever

      • Date: July 11, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann Leven

      • Date: May 8, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Ann Leven was responsible for the financial management of the Smithsonian as Treasurer from 1984 to 1990. Under her leadership, Smithsonian's total endowment fund nearly doubled. Leven oversaw investments, bank relations, insurance programs, management of museum shops, and more. #Groundbreaker

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      Live Webcast Today, 10:30 am, "Linked Open Data in Libraries, Museums, & Archives"

      • Date: September 16, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret S. Child

      • Date: May 25, 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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    15. Link Love: 12/04/2020

      • Date: December 4, 2020
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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      Pardon our temporary departure . . .

      • Date: March 5, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Honeywell, El Segundo, Calif., from the Los Angeles Documentary Project 1980 Susan Ressler, 1949, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts through the Photography Museum of Los Angeles, 1990.38.93."][/caption] This is just a head's up to let our

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      Old Photos, New Histories

      • Date: May 20, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="370" caption="Square House, Man, Child, and Dog on Lawn, ca. 1855, by Unknown photographer, Daguerreotype with applied color (1/2 plate), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, 1994.91.234."][/caption] Often we are

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      Toasting to the Museum that Never Was

      • Date: January 14, 2021
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief look at the Smithsonian’s almost acquisition of Marjorie Merriweather Post’s Hillwood Estate

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    23. Link Love: 4/29/16

      • Date: April 29, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Cardboard architectural landmark cathouses; sacrilege or awesome? [via Design Boom] Prince's Paisley Park to become a museum. [via Hyperallergic]The bison is set to become America's national mammal. Learn how the Smithsonian helped save the American bison. [via Washington Post]A new online archive from the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore Uprising 2015 Archive Project,

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