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    “Love, Doris”

    • Date: March 12, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While digitizing the collection of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, I discovered a treasure trove of correspondence that sheds light about growing up as a young woman in the mid-20th century and the story of an intimate mother-daughter relationship.

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  3. The Star-Spangled Banner, undated.

    2016’s Top Ten Smithsonian History Images

    • Date: December 29, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives makes thousands of historic images of the exhibits, events, and happenings at the Smithsonian available online and, as the year comes to a close, we thought this would be a good time to take a look at some of the year’s most popular Smithsonian History images. You can search the History of the Smithsonian catalog at siris.si.edu to find

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  5. A photo of a woman wearing glasses speaking

    How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;

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  7. Daily Report for the National Zoological Park, 1908, 16 May.

    International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part II

    • Date: June 15, 2017
    • Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.

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    Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

    • Date: January 28, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

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  11. Backmark - William L. Price

    Baby Got Backmark: A Closer Look at Card Photograph Mounts

    • Date: May 6, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A look at the elaborate graphics photographers used to advertise their businesses on the backs of 19th century card mounted photographs.

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  13. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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  15. Hirshhorn walks in front of O'Keeffe near a home in the mountains. Hirshhorn is wearing a long coat and O'Keeffe is wearing a hat. Hirshhorn is smiling at the camera.

    The Room That Could Have Been

    • Date: November 11, 2021
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe and the Hirshhorns had a friendly relationship. Read about how the two almost negotiated a deal to create a room dedicated to her work at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

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  17. 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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    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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    Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion

    • Date: July 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  23. Portrait of Herman Henry Diebitsch

    Spotlight: Herman Henry Diebitsch and Josephine Diebitsch Peary

    • Date: June 24, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: We’re taking a closer look at Smithsonian clerk Herman Henry Diebitsch and his daughter, Arctic explorer Josephine Diebitsch Peary.

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