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    Link Love: 8/24/2012

    • Date: August 24, 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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    The Woman with the Gramophone

    • Date: April 2, 2009
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,

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  5. Five images in a contact sheet of a woman being surprised by a group waiting in a room. It appears that she has been gifted a portrait of a man.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann S. Campbell

    • Date: March 2, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Ann S. Campbell was one of the first women managers at the Smithsonian. Between 1968 and 1980, she directed the Management Analysis Office, responsible for surveying the Institution’s offices on their objectives, staffing, and function and developing any necessary operational changes. Under Campbell, the office was also tasked with issuing Smithsonian directives, including

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  7. A woman sits and poses for a photograph. She isn’t really smiling, Her hands are crossed on her lap. She is wearing a collared shirt under a striped blazer.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jean Milton Berdan

    • Date: July 6, 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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  9. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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  11. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

    Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

    • Date: September 6, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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  13. The Washington Times (Washington D.C.), 23 July 1909

    All Aboard the Chesapeake Beach Railway!

    • Date: July 12, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the train that once traveled between Chesapeake Beach and Washington, D.C.

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  15. Caribee stern, Schmitt on port side, 1959. Image SIA2018-109433.

    On Expedition with Waldo Schmitt

    • Date: July 31, 2018
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: They say a picture is worth a thousand words. If that’s true, some of Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitts field books are worth tens of thousands of words.

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    We Don't Know about You, But We’re Feeling (20)22

    • Date: December 30, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Despite another year of telework and limited physical access to our collections, the Smithsonian Institution Archives has continued to serve our researchers and share more of our collections with the public.

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    See Here: 1/17/2011

    • Date: January 17, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Construction of West Wing of Museum of Natural History

    Sneak Peek 11/19/2018

    • Date: November 19, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Construction of west wing of Museum of Natural History, by Jack Scott, May 27, 1964, SIA Acc. 16-126, MNH-114.

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  23. Dr. Cara Santelli, research geologist at the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, studies the impact of microbial activity on mineral formation, rock-weathering processes, and remediation of contaminated environments. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Cara Santelli

    • Date: July 15, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Cara Santelli, research geologist at the Department of Mineral Sciences, National Museum of Natural History, studies the impact of microbial activity on mineral formation, rock-weathering processes, and remediation of contaminated environments. #Groundbreaker

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