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    The Mystery of the Art Room Frieze

    • Date: June 19, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9668,size=200,left]The Art Room, a greatly scaled down successor to the Smithsonian’s original 1857 Gallery of Art, is located on the second floor of the Smithsonian Building (the Castle). It was designed in 1899 by the architectural firm Hornblower and Marshall to house the Smithsonian’s collection of prints and drawings. When the room was first

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    “Dear Sir”: Letters to the Smithsonian, 1948-1971

    • Date: August 21, 2018
    • Description: In 1956, Helena M. Weiss received a letter asking for information about “how to capture them, also how to raise them… what to put them in, also what to feed them.” Interestingly, the letter-writer neglected to specify what he or she meant by “them,” leaving Weiss only to guess what exactly the inquiry was referring to. From 1948 to 1956, Weiss was Chief of the Office of

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  5. Dr. Patricia Gossel, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Patricia Gossel

    • Date: November 30, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Patricia Gossel, chairman of the Science, Medicine and Society Division, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, established the history of biology collection at the museum, studied the history of the contraceptive pill, and published more than two dozen scholarly articles before her death. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Marquis smiles at the camera. She is wearing a white turtleneck and heart-shaped earrings.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Anne-Louise Marquis

    • Date: June 22, 2022
    • 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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    Women in Science: What the Photos Say

    • Date: March 20, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption width="189" caption="Wanda Margarite Kirkbride Farr (b. 1895), sitting in lab with microscope, Smithsonian Insitution Archives"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_238" width="162" caption="New Use for Light Reflector, National Museum of American History"][/caption]I was intrigued by a recent post on the National Museum of American History’s (NMAH) blog about the

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    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

    • Date: April 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary Parrish

    • Date: May 10, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Scientific illustrator Mary Parrish, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, collaborates with paleobiologists to show the public what extinct landcapes looked like. #Groundbreaker

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  15. Diana of the Tides’ vibrant colors are reminiscent of paintings by Maxfield Parrish. Diana’s creator John Elliott knew Maxfield and his father Stephen from visits to the artists colony in Cornish, New Hampshire. Image courtesy of Smithsonian Archives.

    Diana of the Tides: A Sensation of Her Time

    • Date: January 25, 2011
    • Description: This post originally appeared on the National Museum of Natural History's blog, Unearthed.Who would think that behind the west wall of NMNH's paleontology hall is a painting of a goddess that created a sensation when installed in 1910? Some of you who visited the museum fifty years ago may remember the captivating Diana of the Tides as she surveyed the hall.Diana was painted

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  17. Link Love: 9/18/2020

    • Date: September 18, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  19. From the Walt Whitman Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University.

    Link Love: 2/17/2012

    • Date: February 17, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • 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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    Telling the Story: Illuminating Native Heritage through Photography

    • Date: November 23, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Sneak Peek 10/28/2013

    • Date: October 28, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Velvety Fruit-eating Bat skull from the collections of the Division of Mammals at the National Museum of Natural History.

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