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  1. Merzbach stands at the forefront of a photograph with three men and one woman standing behind her. They are in a computer lab.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Uta C. Merzbach

    • Date: December 30, 2020
    • 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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  3. Aerial view of the National Mall looking east from the Washington Monument during its first stage of building towards the U.S. Capitol, circa 1881, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8015A.

    Sneak Peek 7/22/2019

    • Date: July 22, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Aerial view of the National Mall looking east from the Washington Monument during its first stage of building towards the U.S. Capitol, circa 1881, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-8015A.

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  5. Happy National Train Day ! ! !

    • Date: May 11, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Happy National Train Day from the Archives.

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  7. A portrait of scientist Eva J. Pell smiling.

    American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future

    • Date: October 6, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!

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  9. It its collection, the National Museum of American History has a fallout shelter

    Link Love: 5/18/2012

    • Date: May 18, 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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  11. A tray of bumble bees from the National Museum of Natural History’s bee collection awaits digitization. The Smithsonian Transcription Center will allow virtual volunteers to help transcribe important data found on each specimen’s tag. This data will help scientists studying declining bee populations in North America. By John Gibbons, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

    Link Love: 8/15/2014

    • Date: August 15, 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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    See Here: 2/22/2011

    • Date: February 22, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="A passenger pigeon Martha (named after Martha Washington), the last survivor of an American species that numbered in the millions prior to the 1880's, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914, Her body was donated to the Smithsonian Institution and brought to the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural

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  15. A penguin wearing a bowtie looks to its right.

    Link Love: 5/22/2020

    • Date: May 22, 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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    We Are What We Photograph

    • Date: April 23, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_541" align="alignleft" width="144" caption="Inscription inside Lincoln's watch, by Hugh Talman, 2009, National Museum of American History"][/caption] Does photography always report on the past? Recently, as part of the Lincoln Bicentennial celebration, the Smithsonian took a closer look at a rare Lincoln object that possessed a secret message.

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  19. Washington Monument under construction with U.S. Fish Commission hatching ponds in the foreground and Bureau of Engraving and Printing building in the background.

    The Little Aquarium That Could

    • Date: June 23, 2022
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: It's National Zoo and Aquarium Month! Let's explore the early days of the National Aquarium and its commitment to the promotion of marine science and aquaculture.

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  21. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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    Where’s Waldo . . . L. Schmitt?

    • Date: February 18, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: Waldo L. Schmitt, a curator with the United States National Museum, participated in a 1938 expedition with President Franklin D. Roosevelt to survey the Clipperton, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands.

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