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    It Takes a Village

    • Date: October 13, 2010
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Sometimes a single picture or new piece of information can open a window to a whole new perspective. In my case, it was a couple of sentences—spoken at a recent presentation at the Best Practices Exchange 2010 conference in Phoenix, Arizona—that turned out to be revelatory. The conference was a gathering of archivists, librarians, record managers, and digital curators whose

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    How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;

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    See Here: 3/22/2011

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Image of an expedition member working on the skeleton fossil Sp. 22-27, Titanotherium, Scientific field research headed by Charles W. Gilmore, curator of vertebrate paleontology for the U.S. National Museum (USNM), now known as the National Museum of Natural History, was conducted in 1931 and 1932, by Unidentified

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  7. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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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 man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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  13. View of a snow-topped mountain. At the center of the photographs is a tree with trimmed branches and no leaves.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021

    • Date: April 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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  15. Portrait photograph of a woman wearing glasses and smiling toward the camera. She is wearing a striped top and a long necklace.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret S. Child

    • Date: May 25, 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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  17. An older woman sits at a desk. A lizard is resting on her shoulder but seems to blend in with her sweater.

    Doris Holmes Blake and Her Natural History

    • Date: March 21, 2019
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: Doris Holmes Blake's devotion to her passion for entomology made her a treasure to natural history and the Smithsonian Institution.

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  19. Base of mud brick grainery sile at Tell Jemmeh, Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, Number 9, Fall 1974. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 416.

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Exploring Lost Worlds

    • Date: January 13, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: This installment of Miscellaneous Adventures brings us to Record Unit 416 and the adventures in Smithsonian research across the world.

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  21. Three men in mariachi outfits hold instruments and walk. They are wearing hats and their faces are painted.

    How Much is in That Terabyte?

    • Date: December 6, 2018
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: 2018 was a busy year for born-digital collections at the Archives

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  23. Ironworkers at 1976 Festival of American Folklife.

    Summertime on the Mall - Smithsonian Folklife Festival

    • Date: June 13, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Come out to the 2013 Smithsonian Folklife Festival celebrating Hungarian culture, endangered languages, and African American style.

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