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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Portia James

    • Date: August 15, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Senior Curator and Historian Portia James (1953-2015) pioneered a community-based approach at the Anacostia Community Museum and led the exhibitions, publications and collections programs. She researched African American material culture. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Lightning Fast Legislation for the National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 29, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Twenty-nine years ago yesterday the National Museum of the American Indian Act was signed and the Museum of the American Indian became part of the Smithsonian family.

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  5. NASM Opening Day Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

    Congratulations National Air and Space Museum! 40 Years of Celebrations

    • Date: June 30, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the NASM building with a look back at several of the celebrations that took place there.

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  7. Keepsake pocket bank for the National Negro Memorial, ca. 1926

    The First Quest for a National African American Museum

    • Date: September 22, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: As National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, let’s look at the first efforts to establish a National African American Museum.

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    50 Years of Folklife

    • Date: June 29, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10193,size=175,left]Fifty years ago the Smithsonian embarked on a new venture to bring the culture on display in the museum to life with the first Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Then called the Festival of American Folklife, it set out to show that the crafts shown inside museums are also still alive and well across the country.

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  11. Visitors viewing transparent woman at the opening of the Hall of Health

    The Hall of Health and the Exhibits Modernization Program

    • Date: December 15, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In the 1950s US National Museum staff revitalized exhibits across the Smithsonian, completely transforming the Arts & Industries Building.

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  13. Staff of the Bureau of International Exchanges, 1891.

    The Poetry of Solomon Brown

    • Date: April 19, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: We celebrate National Poetry Month with a look at one of the Smithsonian’s resident poets, Solomon G. Brown.

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    Women in the Office of Protection Services

    • Date: March 12, 2019
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.

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  17. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

    Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

    • Date: March 27, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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    The Smithsonian’s First Garden

    • Date: May 31, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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  21. Portrait of Roxie Laybourne

    Sharing A Love of Birds: Roxie Laybourne

    • Date: January 5, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_308449,size=250,left]Though Roxie Laybourne may be a well-known topic here in the Smithsonian Institution Archives, there is a good reason she is so popular. From good advice to her pioneering career to modern day inspiration, her work offers new insight each time we turn to it. Laybourne’s interest in natural history began long before she began her

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