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      Pickering’s Women?

      • Date: May 8, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    3. Edouard Manet, Woman in Striped Dress, before and after treatment, (1877-80), Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2018; photos: Kris McKay and Allison Chipak.

      Link Love: 7/6/2018

      • Date: July 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    5. Introducing the Science Media Group YouTube Playlist

      • Date: June 29, 2021
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives YouTube channel has a new dedicated playlist for the Science Media Group Collection, which features videos from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory program that was active from 1989 to 2013.

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      The Near Faraway

      • Date: December 3, 2009
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      See Here: 12/15/2010

      • Date: December 15, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="309" caption="The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory-Harvard College Observatory Radio Telescope is installed at Harvard University's George R. Agassiz Station, c. 1968 , by Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 108, Box 2 1966-1971, Folder 5, Negative Number:

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    11. Samuel Pierpont Langley and the Personal Equation Problem

      • Date: April 12, 2018
      • Description: The term “personal equation” came into use in the 19th century as scientists found that observers have inherent biases: some anticipate events, and some report events after they have occurred. Recognition of the problem led to a spate of personal equation instruments: some measured biases of this sort, and some reduced the effect of personal errors. Most of these

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    13. Documenting a Geologist's Adventures

      • Date: December 11, 2012
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired the papers of Ursula Marvin, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory geologist who has studied meteorites and lunar samples.

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    15. Color scan of a pamphlet cover with black text.

      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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    17. Map of expedition sites in Sumatra, 1901

      The Best-Laid Plans of Mice and Astronomers Often Go Awry: The 1901 Sumatra Eclipse Expedition

      • Date: August 17, 2017
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Astronomers travel far and wide to see solar eclipses but sometimes their best laid plans don’t work out..

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