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      Link Love: 5/11/2018

      • Date: May 11, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum looks at the history of rapid change in Washington D.C., the ensuing inequality, and neighborhood activism with A Right to the City. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Check out the newly released 2018 National Design Award winners from the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt. [via Architect Magazine]There may be a developing love story at our

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      Link Love: 3/30/2018

      • Date: March 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    5. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

      “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

      • Date: March 13, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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      The Archives’ Hidden Women

      • Date: March 15, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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      Hot Topics in Archival Research

      • Date: May 2, 2017
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this spring by researchers at the Archives.

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      Volunteer Appreciation: Peter Finkel

      • Date: January 17, 2011
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_10960" align="aligncenter" width="376" caption="Peter Finkel, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. "][/caption] Here at the Archives, we have 25 fulltime staff members, and half as many volunteers and interns at any given moment.

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      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

      • Date: July 21, 2022
      • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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      Volunteer Appreciation: Marianne Green

      • Date: April 2, 2019
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.

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      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2021

      • Date: October 12, 2021
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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      17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!)

      • Date: August 10, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On the Smithsonian's 170th birthday, here are 17 stories of how items have made their way to our collections!

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      The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers

      • Date: April 25, 2019
      • Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.

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