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    1. Female Factory Workers Use Machinery with Belt-driven Lathes

      Sneak Peek 3/19/2018

      • Date: March 19, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Female factory workers use machinery with belt-driven lathes, location unknown, circa 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5110.

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      Happy 50th Anniversary NMAH!

      • Date: January 23, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the National Museum of American History which opened on January 23, 1964.

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      Link Love: 5/30/2014

      • Date: May 30, 2014
      • 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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    7. Merzbach stands at the forefront of a photograph with three men and one woman standing behind her. They are in a computer lab.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Uta C. Merzbach

      • Date: December 30, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Technology and Political Conventions

      • Date: July 19, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a Presidential election year, political news coverage can sometimes seem almost too instantaneous and continuous. Thanks to smartphones with cameras and microphones, journalists and citizens can relay images and sound from almost anywhere inside campaign activities. There was a time, however, when live broadcasting from political conventions and rallies was novel.Starting

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    11. This outfit designed for female factory workers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture had removable sleeves, 1941.

      Science Service, Up Close: Making Do

      • Date: June 4, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Science Service: Up Close - Looking at the "defense fashions" for female workers during World War II.

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    13. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

      • Date: December 26, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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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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