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      The Failed Zeckendorf Plan

      • Date: November 19, 2013
      • Description: During planning of the future National Museum of American History, Webb and Knapp attempted to move it off the Mall into Southwest Washington.

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    3. 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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    5. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

      Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

      • Date: October 28, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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    7. Screenshot of a short article about George earning her Ph.D. next to an image of George.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Luvenia A. George

      • Date: February 24, 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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    9. 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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    11. Atlas moth from the Insect Zoo at the National Museum of Natural History.

      Sneak Peek 2/6/2013

      • Date: February 6, 2013
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Atlas moth from the Insect Zoo at the National Museum of Natural History.

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    13. Brassia caudata (Orchidaceae) watercolor by Regina O. Hughes, c. 1980, National Museum of Natural History, Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, Plate # 641.

      “Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator

      • Date: March 10, 2016
      • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.

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    15. Botanical and entomological specimens.

      Sneak Peek 9/2/2013

      • Date: September 2, 2013
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Botanical and entomological specimens from collections at the National Museum of Natural History.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sabrina Sholts

      • Date: June 27, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Research Anthropologist Dr. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, uses bones to study the effects of environmental contaminants on people in the past and present, and directs the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research Center. #Groundbreaker

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      See Here: 2/17/2011

      • Date: February 17, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="James 'Jim' Mello, Assistant Director of the National Museum of Natural History, sitting at a demonstration loom in the National Museum of American History's Textiles Hall, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 4, Negative Number:

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    21. A woman sits at a desk and holds up photographs of Native Americans. She is wearing white gloves. Archival boxes are in the background.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Paula Richardson Fleming

      • Date: November 27, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Paula Richardson Fleming, Photo Archivist, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1970–2003, organized exhibitions, authored numerous publications on Native American photography, and lectured around the world. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

      • Date: May 25, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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