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    1. Karen Osborn examines a jar of water. She is on a ship. A body of water is in the background. Equipment is on the deck.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Karen Osborn

      • Date: August 26, 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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      Link Love: 11/26/2010

      • Date: November 26, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    5. Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the preservation of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Catharine Hawks

      • Date: March 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the preservation of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

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    7. Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catharine Hawks

      • Date: June 8, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Objects Conservator Catharine Hawks (center), National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the care of natural history specimen and lectures widely on hazards related to collections. #Groundbreaker

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    9. A woman stands near a table that children are working on.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Laura L. McKie

      • Date: April 24, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Laura L. McKie, Assistant Director for Education, 1987–2001, planned, coordinated, and conducted educational activities at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She began her career with the museum as a docent in 1969, and in 1971, she was hired as an Anthropology Education Specialist . #Groundbreaker

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    11. Calvin Coolidge and Grace Coolidge outside White House, Washington, D.C.; by Harris & Ewing; 1924, glass plate negative; Harris & Ewing Collection, Library of Congress; reproduction number LC-DIG-hec-44616.

      Stumbling Upon . . . Calvin Coolidge

      • Date: December 5, 2013
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The science and method of conducting research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    13. Shot of a large elephant, captured from the ground looking up toward the trunk of the specimen.

      Here at the Smithsonian: Tusks and Tentacles

      • Date: July 27, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As Smithsonian museums reopen this summer, let’s revisit two main attractions at the National Museum of Natural History.

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    15. Mount of ground sloth skeleton in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology lab during preparation for exhibition at the United States National Museum in the Natural History Building, 1946, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-37289.

      Sneak Peek 8/12/2019

      • Date: August 12, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Mount of ground sloth skeleton in the Division of Vertebrate Paleontology lab during preparation for exhibition at the United States National Museum in the Natural History Building, 1946, SIA Acc. 11-007, MNH-37289.

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      American History in an Earthenware Teacup

      • Date: January 14, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.

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    19. Taxidermists prepare a giraffe for installation at the National Museum of Natural History.

      Sneak Peek 9/16/2013

      • Date: September 16, 2013
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Taxidermists prepare a giraffe for installation at the National Museum of Natural History.

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    21. Three men, two women and a child pulling rope to ring bell.

      Celebrating One Year and Many More to Come: National Museum of African American History and Culture

      • Date: September 26, 2017
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Just two days ago, the Smithsonian celebrated the one-year anniversary of the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). It seems like just yesterday that we were all waiting for the doors to open; yet, so much has happened in the past year. Since President Barack Obama rang the bell that opened the museum, long lines and happy faces are

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    23. Shooting a passenger pigeon flock; July 3, 1875; published in

      Martha, A Cold and Lonely Last Migration

      • Date: June 26, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: An overview of the history of Martha the passenger pigeon, the last of her species, who was donated to the National Museum of Natural History 100 years ago.

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