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    Records and Information Management Month: The Librarian

    • Date: April 28, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A clause in the last will and testament of English scientist James Smithson eventually led to his estate being left to the United States "to found at Washington, under the name of the Smithsonian Institution, an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men.” There was much debate as to what constituted such an establishment, but many of the proposals

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    SIA Acc. 17-328, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Website Records, 2016

    • Date: 2016
    • Creator: Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  5. Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology

    • Date: March 14, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.

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  7. Four green cots are set up on the floor of the National Air and Space Museum. A large spaceship is in the background. Sleeping bags and backpacks rest on the cots.

    An Operation of Its Own: Brigitte Blachere and Programming within the Smithsonian Associates

    • Date: September 8, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: A collection of interviews from 2013 records the history of the Smithsonian Associates. One of recordings included Brigitte B. Blachere, the program manager of the organization. She detailed the youth and family programs she has developed for 23 years.

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    SIA Acc. 21-055, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit, Website Records, 2019-2020

    • Date: 2019 2019-2020
    • Creator: Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

    • Date: February 22, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    SIA Acc. 98-183, Smithsonian Institution Office of Planning, Management and Budget, Miscellaneous Fiscal, Work, Unit and Topic Files, 1976-1993

    • Date: 1976 1976-1993
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Planning, Management and Budget
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Eva J. Pell

    • Date: February 26, 2020
    • Description: Eva J. PellSmithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009640Eva J. Pell (1948- ), Smithsonian Undersecretary for Science from 2010 to 2014, cracked a glass ceiling by becoming the highest-ranking woman to serve as a science manager at the Smithsonian. She was born in New York City to immigrant parents who, from the start, encouraged her to pursue and value

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      100 Years of the Natural History Building

      • Date: June 17, 2010
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="424" caption="U.S. National Museum, May 3, 1917, seen from the National Mall, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 45, Box 79, Folder: 10, Neg. SIA2009-2203."][/caption] As part of my work as the historian for the history of the Smithsonian, I’ve been working for the past year on

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      SIA RU009530, Smithsonian Institution Paleontology Videohistory Collection, 1987-1988

      • Date: 1987 1987-1988
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      SIA RU009567, Bouché, Adrien M. Jr 1923-, Adrien M. Bouché, Jr. Reminiscences, 1992

      • Date: 1992
      • Creator: Bouché, Adrien M., Jr. 1923-
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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