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  1. Close-up photograph of Claudine K. Brown.

    Remembering the Work of Claudine K. Brown

    • Date: March 23, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.

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  3. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  5. Travelog of 1962-1963 South American trip.

    Transcription Beyond Description: Engaging Opportunities and Weaving Webs of Knowledge

    • Date: June 11, 2013
    • Description: From crowdsourcing transcription to building Wikipedia articles, opportunities abound to weave webs of knowledge with SIA collections.

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  7. Let this 1935 photo serve as our control group. Note the men are wearing suits, vests, and ties. The women follow suit (excuse the pun) — one of them even sports a tie. Ladies wear hats.

    It Suits Me

    • Date: September 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Changes in the way Americans dress over 30 years of group photos.

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  9. Suggestion submitted by W. G. Homer, Chief of the Cabinet Shop, to the Efficiency Awards Committee, dated September 20, 1951. Record Unit 50: Office of the Secretary, records, 1949-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Awarding Excellence

    • Date: April 9, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Another Miscellaneous Adventures explores the work of Smithsonian employees and the quest for their work to be awarded.

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  11. View of collections shelving at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    How I Spent My Summer: Interning as a Virtual Web Archivist

    • Date: August 4, 2022
    • Description: Virtually join along with me on my web and social media archiving adventure using web archiving services, such as Archive-It.

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  13. Effie Kapsalis pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough.

    Effie Kapsalis Wins the Smithsonian Secretary’s Innovative Spirit Award

    • Date: November 1, 2011
    • 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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  15. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

    • Date: June 18, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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  17. Blog Post

    Science Service, Up Close: Father’s Day “Gene-ius”

    • Date: June 13, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate Father’s Day 2019, here are three photographs of famous fathers and sons in biology and physics.

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  19. Blog Post

    Candles on the Water

    • Date: February 3, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_11206" align="aligncenter" width="219" caption="Bells Rock Lighthouse, Chesapeake Bay, c. 1880s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic negative, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative number: MAH-48182H."][/caption] We recently digitized a series of lighthouse images that led me on a surprising research path.

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  21. Link Love: 12/9/2016

    • Date: December 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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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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