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    Link Love: 6/5/2015

    • Date: June 5, 2015
    • 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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  3. A boy and a girl harness a prop mule in an exhibit. The boy is in a wheelchair.

    Hands On. Hands Off.

    • Date: December 14, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Will such things as the Hands History Room ever exist again?

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  5. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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  7. Link Love: 4/17/2020

    • Date: April 17, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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  9. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

    Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart

    • Date: January 3, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.

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  11. Blog Post

    Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

    • Date: May 26, 2011
    • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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  13. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Kaplan

    • Date: July 26, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. Susan A. Kaplan (left), formerly of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , directs the Peary McMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center, and studies Inuit responses to environmental change and Arctic exploration. #Groundbreaker

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  15. Dr. Robert P. Multauf, Director of the Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History. April 5, 1966.

    Bald and Free Smithsonian

    • Date: October 14, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Bald and Free Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents bald or partially bald employees and visitors to the Smithsonian.

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  17. An American bison stands in the snow. It looks toward the camera.

    Serendipity and Unexpected Connections

    • Date: April 23, 2020
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”

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  19. History of the National Mall. Text by Patricia Wilson Carr. Graphic by Varinia Telleria, Laris Karklis and Samuel Granados. Washington Post.

    Link Love: 9/18/2015

    • Date: September 18, 2015
    • 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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  21. Lynn Volpi Demonstrates

    Sneak Peek 9/10/2018

    • Date: September 10, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Lynn Volpi demonstrates "By-Word" wand sound system in a mineralogy exhibit at National Museum of Natural History, November 26, 1975, by Harry Neufeld, SIA RU000371, 75-16336-11.

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  23. Retail Associate, Helen Jagodzinske, National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen Jagodzinske

    • Date: September 14, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Retail Associate, Helen Jagodzinske, National Museum of American History, was the oldest employee at the Smithsonian when she retired at age 94. Prior to that, she served at the Pentagon as clerk, and in the Women's Army Corp during WWII. #Groundbreaker

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