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    1. B&W photograph of steel crossbeams above a wide open room.

      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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      Color History with the Smithsonian Recap!

      • Date: April 5, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On a cloudy Saturday afternoon, over 30 volunteers showed up at the National Museum of the American Indian to write minority women into digital history during a Wikipedia edit-a-thon in honor of Women's History Month. On the to-do list were artists, educators, activists, Smithsonian employees, the first Chinese-American female dentist, and the African-American woman who

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      3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

      • Date: March 15, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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    7. Black and white half-plate daguerreotype of a woman seen from the chest up, image is in a black frame

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

      • Date: May 22, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.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

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    9. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

      Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

      • Date: August 2, 2018
      • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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    11. A portrait of scientist Eva J. Pell smiling.

      American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future

      • Date: October 6, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!

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    13. Lonnie G. Bunch III after his appointment as associate chair of the Department of Social and Cultural History

      Sneak Peek 6/3/2019

      • Date: June 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Secretary-elect Lonnie G. Bunch III after his appointment as associate chair of the Department of Social and Cultural History at National Museum of American History, October 4, 1991, SIA Acc. 11-009, 91-15620-06.

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    15. A man sits next to Rosemary Fallon, who is lifting a mat from what appears to be a photograph on a desk. Weights hold down the image. Both people are looking at the camera.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rosemary Fallon

      • Date: October 27, 2021
      • 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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      Link Love: 3/9/2018

      • Date: March 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 2018 Women's History Month edition!Little-known Hungarian art deco designer, Ilonka Karasz, has a solo show at the Cooper Hewitt [via Antiques and the Arts Weekly]The New York Times is trying to right the gender imbalance in their obituary archive by adding obits for 15 historic women including activist Ida B. Wells, feminist poet Qiu Jin, and mathematician Ada Lovelace...with

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      “The Nut Lady” Reconsidered

      • Date: March 27, 2009
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Elizabeth Tashjiaan, American painter, 1912-2007, Smithsonian American Art Museum"][/caption]Looking at this photo of artist Elizabeth Tashjian in our new set of portraits of women artists at the Smithsonian Commons on Flickr, it seemed obvious to me that I was looking at a professionally-trained artist, who in fact, won

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      Lost and Found

      • Date: August 18, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_7871" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="A rendering of the AT&T Building, now the SONY Building, in New York, recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum from a newly discovered cache of material from the Philip Johnson’s architectural practice. Photo courtesy Capelin Communications.

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    23. Alison Reppert Gerber, Preservation Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: June 30, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to our new Preservation Coordinator, Alison Reppert Gerber.

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