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      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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    3. Mutchler stands in front of an exhibit space at NMNH.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sheila Mutchler

      • Date: March 31, 2021
      • 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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    5. Now You See It, Now You Don't - The Foucault Pendulum at the National Museum of American History

      • Date: November 8, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of the anniversary of the discovery of x-rays, a look inside the Foucault pendulum that used to hang at the National Museum of American History.

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    7. Drawing of the U. S. National Museum, South Front and Surroundings

      The Birth of a Building: Constructing the United States National Museum

      • Date: June 20, 2013
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: The birth of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, as told through construction photographs.

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    9. Werb speaks to a crowd.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Shari Rosenstein Werb

      • Date: July 15, 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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    11. Portrait of a woman wearing a nurses uniform that includes a small, white hat. A white building with tall columns is in the background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Verdine J. Frederick

      • Date: July 21, 2021
      • 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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    13. History and Chronologies

      • Date: July 5, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: As the National Museum of American History's new director, John Gray, begins his tenure we take a look back at those who proceeded him.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers

      • Date: January 11, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker

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    17. Installation of a restored segregation-era railway car, circa 1918 in the National Museum of African American History and Culture, November 17, 2013. Courtesy of NMAAHC.

      National Museum of African American History and Culture - Happy 10th Anniversary!

      • Date: December 16, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Take a moment to celebrate the 10th anniversary of legislation that created the National Museum of African American History and Culture!

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    19. Display of a wall of orchids inside the Hirshhorn Museum.

      Orchids and Oral History

      • Date: April 16, 2020
      • Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.

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      Never Just the Facts

      • Date: April 22, 2010
      • Description: For the last year the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has been preparing to celebrate its 100 year anniversary. As part of the celebration, curators and archivists have been combing the files in preparation for an exhibition of historic photographs that will describe the museum’s history. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="218" caption="Photomicrograph

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    23. Visit of Emperor Hirohito of Japan to National Museum of Natural History

      Sneak Peek 7/9/2018

      • Date: July 9, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Visit of Emperor Hirohito of Japan to National Museum of Natural History, 75-13769-14.

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