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    1. Female peep with plaid cape standing on seashore surrounded by fossils with black cliff and blue sky.

      Link Love: 3/30/2018

      • Date: March 30, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Women's History Month edition, continued!The story of fossil seller and paleontologist Mary Anning (for whom the "She Sells Seashells" rhyme was possibly written), in Peeps. [via The Last Word on Nothing]A look at the WWI Women's Land Army composed of "farmettes" who went outside the home to address the national food shortage. [via LOC Blog]For 25 cents an hour, less than

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    3. Letterhead from Professor Thorndike Saville, Associate Professor of Sanitary Engineering, stating that they never have, nor will, register women in the engineering department.

      Link Love: 6/9/2017

      • Date: June 9, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Ouch — the Society of Women Engineers has a collection of rejection letters sent to women attempting to gain entry to engineering programs. [via Atlantic]A new discovery of 300,000 year old remains of Homo sapiens shows that our species evolved in multiple locations on the African continent. [via NY Times]iNaturalist.org is launching an app that will help you identify plants

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    5. Six festival participants on wooden stage holding ukuleles with visitors looking on.

      Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

      • Date: May 18, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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    7. Here at the Smithsonian: Art Conservation

      • Date: January 26, 2021
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Check out these two newly-available clips from Here At The Smithsonian!

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    9. Opening reception for exhibit Sesame Street: The First 20 Years at National Museum of American History.

      Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!

      • Date: June 1, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.

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    11. Watson Hiner Monroe (at left, behind the wheel) and Katherine Tait Omwake and Thelma Hunt (visible in the back seat), participating in driving test as part of the George Washington University “Sleeplessness Test” weekend, August 14-16, 1925.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Sleeplessness Study, Part 2 - Adventurers

      • Date: August 20, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1925, seven George Washington University students volunteered to stay awake for sixty hours, and drove, danced, sang, and swam in an effort to remain alert.

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    13. Two-page spread of a booklet containing broadcast information for “The World Is Yours” and a history of Thomas Davenport. A black and white drawing of a track with a motor appears at the top middle of the right-hand page.

      The World Is Yours: Unheralded American Inventors

      • Date: November 17, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Did you know that Joseph Francis invented the first metal life-saving boat? Or that Gail Borden invented the process for creating condensed milk? Neither did I until I heard The World Is Yours episode titled “Unheraled American Inventors,” which originally aired on April 4, 1937.Where most of the episodes I’ve listened to begin with the host walking up to two people while they

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    15. 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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      Link Love: 4/18/2014

      • Date: April 18, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    19. The ceremonial key received by Secretary Skorton.

      Welcome Secretary Skorton!

      • Date: October 20, 2015
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution welcomes it’s thirteenth Secretary, David J. Skorton with an installation ceremony.

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    21. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

      The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

      • Date: July 16, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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    23. A man sits at a desk in an office. Papers and books are stacked on desks in the office.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2022

      • Date: July 21, 2022
      • Description: We're highlighting a few topics explored by Smithsonian Institution Archives researchers this summer.

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