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  1. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

    Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

    • Date: March 5, 2020
    • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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    SIA Acc. 14-271, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Publicity Records, 1991-2013

    • Date: 1991 1991-2013
    • Creator: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. 88-149, Smithsonian Institution Office of Equal Opportunity, Administrative Files, 1983-1984

    • Date: 1983 1983-1984
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Equal Opportunity
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  7. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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  9. Happy National Chemistry Week!

    • Date: October 25, 2012
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: Here are some of the scientific discoveries made while conserving Joseph Henry’s Record of Experiments Book I on electromagnetism.

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    SIA Acc. 06-134, Science Service, Records, 1921-1974

    • Date: 1921 1921-1974
    • Creator: Science Service
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Director's Records, 2015

    • Date: 2015
    • Creator: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

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  15. Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of

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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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    Fame ... By Any Other Name

    • Date: March 20, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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    SIA Acc. 12-359, Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Business Ventures Smithsonian Magazine, Editor's Records, 1968-2002

    • Date: 1968 1968-2002
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Smithsonian Business Ventures. Smithsonian Magazine
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA Acc. T90109, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Administrative Records, 1964-1975

    • Date: 1964 1964-1975
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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