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      Robert Ridgway – From Protégé to a Leading Ornithologist

      • Date: February 27, 2020
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: As a teenager, Robert Ridgway was tapped by the Smithsonian’s Assistant Secretary to be an expedition zoologist. In 1881, when the US National Museum opened its doors, he was the curator of Birds. Download and reuse some of bird illustrations today through Smithsonian Open Access.

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    3. Portrait of Helena M. Weiss

      Women Managing the Smithsonian

      • Date: March 17, 2020
      • Description: Meet some of the women who have managed aspects of the Smithsonian since the 1850s.

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      See Here: 7/1/2011

      • Date: July 1, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="425" caption="Image of Merle Crisler Foshag and her husband William F. Foshag, Curator in the U.S. National Museum's Department of Geology, The two are standing amid flowers, while on Foshag's scientific expedition to Tepoztlán, Mexico, 1929, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record

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    7. The World Is Yours: Early Air Mail

      • Date: June 1, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from The World Is Yours episode “Early Air Mail” and its short reign under the United States Postal Service from 1916 to 1926.

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      Heart of Glass

      • Date: October 5, 2017
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Since our move to Smithsonian Institution Support Center, in the fall of 2015, the Archives have been able to work on longer-term projects using the photographic negatives stored in our cold storage vault. One of these projects is systematically scanning the collection of glass plate negatives from the United States National Museum, Division of Graphic Arts Photograph

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      Link Love: 8/25/2017

      • Date: August 25, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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      Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

      • Date: September 19, 2017
      • Creator: Jessica Lavin
      • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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      Design + Archives: Posters

      • Date: February 11, 2020
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Posters at the Smithsonian display a wide range of exhibitions and programs, each with a design that is visually intriguing and purposeful in conveying information.

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      The Field Book Project: Uncovering Hidden Gems at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2010
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      Gender Discrimination at the Smithsonian Institution

      • Date: August 6, 2019
      • Description: A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.

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    21. An exhibit case, titled Soils and Fertilizers.

      Archives Puzzles: Giving the People What They Want...An Exhibit Case about Soils and Fertilizers...

      • Date: August 3, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This summer, 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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    23. John N. Robinson, His Life and Work

      • Date: September 9, 2014
      • Description: I cannot, I feel, have any regrets about my accomplishments. What comes from art will just come. I don’t feel any need to strive. - John N. Robinson One of my favorite parts of working in an archive is the opportunity to immerse myself in other people’s worlds, to learn more about their stories and experiences. One such person I encountered recently was John N. Robinson, a

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