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    2017 Top Blog Posts

    • Date: December 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It's interesting to look back and see what resonated with you, our readers, this past year. Clearly, we along with many of you were fascinated by the solar eclipse of 2017 that was viewable from many parts of the U.S. Three of the top 10 were about solar eclipses. You also were captivated by our efforts to bring more attention to women in science. Three of the posts have to do

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  3. Link Love: 12/9/2016

    • Date: December 9, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An Archivists' call-to-action, in song, from the Society of American Archivists, and Garrison Keeler. A new exhibit from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum examines clothing waste. [via Hyperallergic]The first curator of Media and Performance Art, Mark Beasely, was appointed at the Hirshhorn. [via Artnet]A new book is out about the team of Harvard female "computers"

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    Formidable: Women in Science

    • Date: March 8, 2009
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!

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  7. Link Love: 8/20/2021

    • Date: August 20, 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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  9. An illustration of the Children’s Room in the Smithsonian Castle. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1901. Smithsonian Libraries.

    Knowledge Begins in Wonder: The Design Behind the Smithsonian Children’s Room

    • Date: March 1, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: The history of the Smithsonian’s Children’s Room, a project led by Smithsonian Secretary Langley and famous interior designer Grace Lincoln Temple.

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  11. People standing around quilt panel with a design of the Smithsonian Castle on the upper half and small quilt panels and people’s names on the lower half.

    The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall

    • Date: December 17, 2020
    • Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.

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    A New Look at Home Movies

    • Date: May 31, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="I have no hours in the day to watch TV/games. Don't let life go by!!, by National Media Museum, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] From 2002-2005, a unique archive of video tapes was compiled by the Center on Everyday Lives of Families (CELF) at UCLA, with the goal of studying a relatively new social

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  15. Men and women in nice clothes stand around a field. A man is standing at the center and digging into the ground with a shovel.

    Archives Puzzles: A Groundbreaking Day

    • Date: June 14, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Grace Lincoln Temple

    • Date: January 5, 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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    Breaking Ground and Blessing the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: September 21, 2021
    • Creator: Hannah Byrne
    • Description: On September 28, 1999, representatives of dozens of tribes from across the hemisphere gathered on the National Mall for the groundbreaking of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. On the overcast morning, several hundred people packed under three tents during a ceremony that featured blessings from the four cardinal directions. After the ceremony, some

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  21. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

    National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

    • Date: September 18, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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    How did the Smithsonian Respond to the 1918 Pandemic?

    • Date: June 11, 2020
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Masks and endless sanitizing again? What has the Smithsonian done during past pandemics? We’ll look back to the public health emergency in 1918.

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