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  1.  The first African American female elevator operator and museum technician at the National Museum of Natural History, Sophie Lutterlough, tirelessly worked to restore and classify thousands of myriapoda and tick specimen. #Groundbreaker

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sophie Lutterlough

    • Date: May 4, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The first African American female elevator operator and museum technician at the National Museum of Natural History, Sophie Lutterlough, tirelessly worked to restore and classify thousands of myriapoda and tick specimen. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Marine Scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History researches the ecology and evolution of coral reefs using molecular genetics, field studies, and mathematical modeling. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Nancy Knowlton

    • Date: June 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Nancy Knowlton, Marine Scientist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History researches the ecology and evolution of coral reefs using molecular genetics, field studies, and mathematical modeling. #Groundbreaker

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  5. Four African American boys with three dogs and a bicycle in an alley cluttered with trash, by Robert S. Scurlock, color photoprint. Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, image no. AC0618-002-0000003.

    Link Love: 8/7/2015

    • Date: August 7, 2015
    • 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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    Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives’ Website

    • Date: January 18, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collections to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.New Finding Aids Online: A group of collections documenting the field work of scientists who worked at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, Department of Invertebrate Zoology:

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  9. The Getty's IIIF viewer, via the Getty blog.

    Link Love: 6/02/2017

    • Date: June 2, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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  11. An example of a Ryan Gosling Hey Girl museum post.

    Link Love: 12/30/2012

    • Date: December 30, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    A Quirk, a Chase and the Power of a Crowd

    • Date: March 13, 2014
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: People everywhere are helping the Smithsonian Institution Archives make more of its collections deeply accessible through helping transcribe field books, journals, and diaries in our collections.

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  15. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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  17. Black and white photo of 3 seated women and 1 man at reception holding plates and drinking Coca Cola.

    Link Love: 2/3/2017

    • Date: February 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The history behind the film, Hidden Figures, from Curator Paul Ceruzzi. [via National Air and Space Museum]Umbra Search African American History now has over 500,000 items from more than 1000 libraries, museums and archives. [via OCLC and University of Minnesota Libraries]A Twitter tribute to Holocaust victims who were turned away by the U.S. in 1939. [via Atlantic]Library of

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  19. Frank Harbert and Fred Zwickel at Mill Creek Watershed, March 1949.

    Link Love: 12/20/2013

    • Date: December 20, 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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  21. Portrait of smiling African American woman

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer

    • Date: November 15, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Chief curator, Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), assembled the museum's art collection documenting 200 years of black visual expression. #Groundbreaker

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  23. Woman looking at the camera and smiling with a bird sitting to her left.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen James

    • Date: September 26, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Dr. Helen James, Curator of Birds, National Museum of Natural History, studies fossil evidence of birds and developed ways to use modern techniques, such as carbon dating, to understand evolutionary and ecological context. #Groundbreaker

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