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    Ruel P. Tolman’s Images: Who Are You?

    • Date: January 12, 2012
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Help us identify images from the 1930s, photographed by Ruel P. Tolman, Curator and Director of the Smithsonian’s National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    click! in the Classroom

    • Date: March 18, 2010
    • Description: When most people think of Lincoln, Nebraska, the images they probably conjure up are of Husker football fans dressed in red, and the endless flat expanse of Interstate 80 as it stretches westward toward the Rocky Mountains. What most people don’t know is that Nebraska has become the fifth largest refugee resettlement site per capita, compared with states of similar

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  5. Defective Taxidermy Specimens

    Sneak Peek 7/2/18

    • Date: July 2, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Defective taxidermy specimens, previously on exhibit in United States National Museum, circa 1890, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-5802.

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  7. Cameras and photographic equipment for United States National Museum photography exhibition, circa 1913, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-21469.

    Sneak Peek 8/19/2019

    • Date: August 19, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Cameras and photographic equipment for United States National Museum photography exhibition, circa 1913, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-21469.

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  9. Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894.

    Sneak Peek 1/20/2020

    • Date: January 20, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Transportation exhibit featuring automobiles in the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, circa 1894, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-805.

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  11. 1913 Ford Model T Touring Car

    Sneak Peek 6/25/2018

    • Date: June 25, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: 1913 Ford Model T touring car upon arrival for donation to the United States National Museum, 1935, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-32194.

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  13. Edith Mayo, wearing a white or cream-colored pantsuit, holds a 1910s suffrage banner at a parade.

    Revisiting The Right to Vote

    • Date: October 29, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: With the election only days away, we’re taking a look back at The Right to Vote at Smithsonian’s National Museum of History and Technology, 1972–74.

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  15. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

    Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

    • Date: March 27, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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  17. A man in a gray hooded sweatshirt bends over a textile-mounted piece of art on paper; he is pressing a heated metal spatula against a piece of white insulating paper to soften heat-sensitive paper as a mending technique. The art on paper is supported on a clear acrylic board suspended between two white tables.

    Some Conservator Career Advice

    • Date: July 11, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: So you want to be a conservator? In this continuation of our series on career advice, one of our conservators shares some advice for those looking to explore the professional field of cultural heritage conservation.

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  19. Selection of horns mounted for musical instruments exhibit in the United States National Museum.

    Sneak Peek 6/10/2019

    • Date: June 10, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Selection of horns mounted for musical instruments exhibit in the United States National Museum, 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8224.

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  21. Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum building.

    Sneak Peek 3/30/2020

    • Date: March 30, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, SIA_000095_B67_F16_004.

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    American History in an Earthenware Teacup

    • Date: January 14, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.

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