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    Lisa Stevens: The Inspiring Career of the “Panda Lady”

    • Date: September 1, 2020
    • Description: Known lovingly by the public as the “Panda Lady,” Lisa Stevens cultivated a rich thirty-year career at the National Zoological Park as the senior curator of mammals.

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    “Ding” Darling’s Ducks and What’s Good for the Earth

    • Date: May 7, 2020
    • Description: Throughout his twenty-five years as a Science Service journalist, Frank Thone maintained an active correspondence with fellow scientists and conservationists. His letters in the Smithsonian Institution Archives both preserve his wit and offer a glimpse at the informal networking that helped shape how Americans perceived the natural world.

One of Thone’s correspondents was a

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  5. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Gina Pragan

    • Date: November 14, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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  7. Graph of the activity of Archives #volunpeers during the first 6 months of the year

    Ecology of the Transcription Center at the Archives

    • Date: September 4, 2014
    • Description: Learning the basis of landscape ecology to understand how the Transcription Center and the Smithsonian Institution Archives community of #volunpeers operates as a system.

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    Exploring Oral History at the Smithsonian

    • Date: April 6, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: A brief history and exploration of oral history collections at the Smithsonian.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marian H. Pettibone

    • Date: April 12, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Bonus anecdote about Dr. Pettitbone:"While standing in line for a job interview during WWII, she overheard that men standing in the next line were going to get paid much more than those in her line. She then switched lines and became a spot welder, rather than a typist."

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  13. Link Love: 6/28/2013

    • Date: June 28, 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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  15. Now Open to the Public (in 1922) - Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 13, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On November 14, 1922 George Gustav Heye's Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in New York City.

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    The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

    • Date: August 19, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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  19. Blog Post

    Science Service, Up Close: Of Princes, Princesses, and Science

    • Date: June 12, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: As editor E. E. Slosson began setting up the Science Service news office, his mail was flooded with inquiries from potential contributors. Writers and photographers described their accomplishments and submitted samples of their work. One such letter, from Albert Harlingue on April 13, 1921, must have piqued Slosson’s interest, for it coincided with the Washington visit of “a

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  21. Plexus Installation, by Gabriel Dawe

    Link Love: 11/25/2016

    • Date: November 25, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one

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    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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