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    1. Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the preservation of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Catharine Hawks

      • Date: March 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the preservation of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

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    3. Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catharine Hawks

      • Date: June 8, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the care of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

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    5. Original framing of the Archives’ bison images

      Bison Lost, Bison Found

      • Date: February 23, 2017
      • Creator: William Bennett
      • Description: Join us as we recount how the Archives’ crayon enlargements depicting American bison were traced back to their probable origin.

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      The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

      • Date: January 9, 2018
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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      See Here: 8/3/2010

      • Date: August 3, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Lecture Room in the northeast Range in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, early 1900s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 24, Negative Number: 16242 (MHT)."][/caption]

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    11. Stratosphere on the Street in Washington D.C., April 15, 1936, by Ruel P. Tolman, Record Unit 7433 - Ruel P. Tolman Collection, 1909-1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2011-2366 or 32233-3.

      A Mysterious Sphere

      • Date: July 24, 2014
      • Description: Can you help identify this exploration vessel and what it’s doing on the streets of Washington?

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    13. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

      Open Minds Open Doors

      • Date: March 15, 2012
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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    15. The Tropical Travels of George C. Wheeler - Part I

      • Date: January 10, 2013
      • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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      How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 2, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;

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      Celebrate American Archives Month with the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 20, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="232" caption="The flag pole on the top of the Flag Tower of the Smithsonian Institution Building with the American flag and the new flag of the Smithsonian Institution, 1996, by Eric Long, Color photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 97-074, Box 1, Folder, Birthday Party on the Mall Bell and Flag, Negative Number:

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    21. Happy Holidays from the Archives!

      • Date: December 25, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz

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    23. The Life Behind the Photograph

      • Date: March 28, 2013
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Thanks to the Flickr community, the Smithsonian Archives knows the context for a photograph of Norwegian biologist Kristin Bonnevie.

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