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      Finding the Thousand Words Behind the Picture

      • Date: March 31, 2010
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: You know the old cliché—“A picture is worth a thousand words.” But is it true in every case? A simple portrait from 60 years ago may give some clues to period hairstyle and dress, but none to where the photo was taken or why the person was noteworthy. Sources now available on the internet, such as the Historic newspaper database, Proquest, and even YouTube—give Smithsonian

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    3. Crossness Pumping Station

      Link Love: 8/19/2016

      • Date: August 19, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    5. Kindergarten Classroom in Burdine, Kentucky, from the Consolidation Coal Company

      Back to School!

      • Date: September 16, 2009
      • 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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    7. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

      “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

      • Date: March 13, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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    9. Viola Anderson to Science Service, April 13, 1935, Record Unit 7091: Science Service, Records, 1902-1965, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-003190.

      Science Service, Up Close: Idiosyncratic Discoveries

      • Date: March 10, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A look at Viola Anderson and her letter to Science Service.

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    11. Tennessee v. John T. Scopes Trial: John Thomas Scopes, June 1925.

      90th Anniversary of the Scopes Trial

      • Date: July 9, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The 1925 anti-evolution trial of John Thomas Scopes is described through photographs by Watson Davis and William Silverman.

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      Smooth Operator

      • Date: April 11, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    15. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

      Open Minds Open Doors

      • Date: March 15, 2012
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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    17. 2 geometric silver vessels, one with handles on each side, one with a spout and handle

      Link Love: 3/9/2018

      • Date: March 9, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 2018 Women's History Month edition!Little-known Hungarian art deco designer, Ilonka Karasz, has a solo show at the Cooper Hewitt [via Antiques and the Arts Weekly]The New York Times is trying to right the gender imbalance in their obituary archive by adding obits for 15 historic women including activist Ida B. Wells, feminist poet Qiu Jin, and mathematician Ada Lovelace...with

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      Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher

      • Date: August 23, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who

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    21. Tamar stands in front of the doors of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives office. The sign reads: Smithsonian Libraries in the glass. The doors are gold. Tamar is wearing a long black and white dress, a statement necklace, and black tights.

      An Interview with Director Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

      • Date: February 4, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Smithsonian Libraries and Archives recently welcomed Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty as our inaugural director. Join us as we get to know the new leader of our organization!

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      Link Love: 12/31/2010

      • Date: December 31, 2010
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="324" caption="Stereo Images (Precipitating Snow) obtained using a Low Temperature Scanning Electron Microscope (LT-SEM) that is located in the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center in the Electron Microscopy Unit, Beltsville Maryland, Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture."][/caption] We have old-school photos of snow at the

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