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  1. Two sketches of a bird's head attached to a beige paper. The larger sketch is in color and the smaller sketch is in black and white.

    Link Love: 3/15/2019

    • Date: March 15, 2019
    • 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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  3. Tweet from @jacobharris

    Hunting for Elephants in Archives

    • Date: February 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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  5. Black & white photo of anthropologists holding up world's longest beard.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme

    • Date: February 1, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Lucille St. Hoyme, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, worked her way up from clerk to curator of physical anthropology researching variations of human traits from region to region over time. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Link Love: 5/29/2020

    • Date: May 29, 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. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

    • Date: May 25, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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  11. Curator & Scholar Mary Jane Lenz, National Museum of American Indian, specialized in the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic peoples, and the cross-cultural study of dolls. She vastly improved collections documentation about these collections. #Groundbreaker

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: 4/6/2016

    • Date: April 6, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: In Memorium: Curator & Scholar Mary Jane Lenz, National Museum of American Indian, specialized in the Northwest Coast, Arctic, and Subarctic peoples, and the cross-cultural study of dolls. She vastly improved collections documentation about these collections. #Groundbreaker

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  13. Alice R. Tangerini, National Museum of Natural History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Alice R. Tangerini

    • Date: August 24, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Alice R. Tangerini became the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany's first staff illustrator in 1972, and she has illustrated over 1500 species of plants. #Groundbreaker

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  15. The National Museum of Natural History’s Forensic Ornithologist, Carla Dove, examines the remains of birds that struck airplanes in order to minimize future, sometimes fatal, bird-strike accidents. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Carla Dove

    • Date: January 7, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The National Museum of Natural History’s Forensic Ornithologist, Carla Dove, examines the remains of birds that struck airplanes in order to minimize future, sometimes fatal, bird-strike accidents. #Groundbreaker

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  17. Dr. Jun Wen, botanist, evolutionary biologist and research curator, National Museum of Natural History, is an expert on the systematics and biogeography of the ginseng family (Araliaceae) and the grape family (Vitaceae). #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Jun Wen

    • Date: November 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Jun Wen, botanist, evolutionary biologist and research curator, National Museum of Natural History, is an expert on the systematics and biogeography of the ginseng family (Araliaceae) and the grape family (Vitaceae). #Groundbreaker

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  19. Image is of Karla Billups in front of the National Museum of Natural History.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karla E. Billups

    • Date: February 23, 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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  21. Shirley Cherkasky, public programs coordinator, National Museum of American History

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Shirley Cherkasky

    • Date: September 28, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Shirley Cherkasky, public programs coordinator, National Museum of American History, and culinary historian, had several curious tasks in coordinating public programs for the Smithsonian, from hiring an Uncle Sam reenacto for July 4th to procuring the correct tree leaves for a Swiss musician to play. #Groundbreaker

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  23. Four women work on a mosaic on some sort of base.

    Link Love: 05/28/2021

    • Date: May 28, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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