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    1. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    3. China Ligantissima?, Mollusk Illustration, August 2, 1866

      William H. Dall: He had Malacology Down to an Art

      • Date: August 16, 2012
      • Description: Explorer, Biologist, and former Smithsonian employee, William Healey Dall, also had artistic talent.

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    5. Florence Merriam Bailey Diary (1874). Entries March 1-2 with drawings. Record Unit 7417 - Florence Merriam Bailey Papers, 1865-1942, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Outstanding Women in Ornithology: Florence Merriam Bailey

      • Date: March 25, 2014
      • Description: With women’s history month upon us, SIA would like to recognize ornithologist and nature writer Florence Merriam Bailey.

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      A Ghost in the Archives: Robert Kennicott

      • Date: October 27, 2016
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: A spooky coincidence leads to a forgotten Robert Kennicott document in the Smithsonian Archives.

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    9. Science Service director Watson Davis with General Motors' Thomas Midgley Jr, 1936.

      Science Service, Up Close: Patent Parades, Silk Purses, and Snake Bite Remedies

      • Date: March 30, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Everyone loves a parade – especially one followed by a banquet. When scientists and politicians met in Washington, D.C., on November 23, 1936, to celebrate the centennial of the U.S. patent system, they listened first to a conventional program of speeches. Then, in the afternoon, Science Service director Watson Davis arranged something different: a “Research Parade” featuring

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    11. Harriman Alaska Expedition

      • Date: April 5, 2012
      • Description: A profile of the Archives' collections related to the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899 which explored Alaska's flora, fauna, and geography.

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      Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

      • Date: May 11, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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    15. Mary S. M. Gibson, January 1954, Frank J. Gilloon Agency, Record Unit 267: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Records, 1881, 1895-1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Women in Humanities

      • Date: March 3, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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    17. Large opening at the excacvation site yielding an abundance of ammonium chloride, 1872. Record Unit 7000 - James Smithson Collection, 1796-1951, c. 1974, 1981-1983, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. SIA2009-0856.

      Smithsonian Backs Journey to the Center of the Earth

      • Date: April 1, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: In 1864, Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth sparked people’s imagination, but have you heard that before the novel was published, the Smithsonian attempted a journey of its own.

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    19. 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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    21. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

      Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

      • Date: May 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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    23. Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.

      Alice Paul Memorial March

      • Date: March 26, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Alice Paul Memorial March in Washington, D.C.

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