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  1. Portrait of Freida Austin from The Prophet.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Freida Austin Johnson

    • Date: February 3, 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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  3. 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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  5. A man sits next to Rosemary Fallon, who is lifting a mat from what appears to be a photograph on a desk. Weights hold down the image. Both people are looking at the camera.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rosemary Fallon

    • Date: October 27, 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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    Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers

    • Date: March 26, 2015
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.

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  9. View from LORAN tower on Sand-Johnston Island, including antenna supports, 1964, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2013-08810.

    A New Perspective from the Field Book Project

    • Date: October 18, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: We just launched a new set of images on Flickr Commons documenting the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey.

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  11. Wild animals of Glacier National Park, 1918. Vernon and Florence Merriam Bailey. Courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library.

    Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives

    • Date: February 11, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.

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    Link Love: 8/13/2010

    • Date: August 13, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="147" caption="Walt Whitman, 1875, by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Chalk on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Robert Tyler Davis Memorial Fund, 1980.73."][/caption] Fascinating interview with poet Robert Roper, who dug into the National Archives to examine the moving letters poet Walt Whitman wrote to family

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  15. Now Open to the Public (in 1922) - Museum of the American Indian

    • Date: November 13, 2012
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On November 14, 1922 George Gustav Heye's Museum of the American Indian opened to the public in New York City.

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  17. View of an exhibit, titled

    Archives Puzzles: 100 Years of the Smithsonian

    • Date: November 23, 2020
    • 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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    Cabinet of Curiosities

    • Date: September 7, 2010
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8083" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="The mysterious cabinet of curiosities with assorted film cameras perched on top, 2010, by Michael Barnes, SIA."][/caption] Last fall a piece of furniture showed up in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) reception area. Aside from a few nicks, it is a large, handsome cabinet with drawers and double

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  21. Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collections, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-4347.

    Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist

    • Date: January 14, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.

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    Link Love: 8/12/2011

    • Date: August 12, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s Around the Mall blog has an interview with our Smithsonian Historian, Pam Henson, about the famous, real-life Smokey the Bear (you can also read our earlier post on the subject). Need to get a 17th century recipe for almond cakes? The Wellcome Library’s online Recipe Manuscripts is the place for you. This is a really fun collection to browse [via Marcel

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