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    1. Iris Miroy Ovshinsky with her husband Stanford Robert Ovshinsky.

      Science Service, Up Close: The Periodic Chart

      • Date: January 3, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Henry David Hubbard (1870-1943), a physicist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards, designed the first edition of the "Periodic Chart of the Atoms" in 1924. The chart is still in use today, continually updated to reflect new elements.

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      Missed Connections

      • Date: February 3, 2022
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: For Valentine’s Day, we’re digging into some local love stories that started at the Smithsonian.

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      A Library for the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council

      • Date: September 7, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: From The Feminine Mystique to Ms. magazine: take a look at what members of the Women’s Council were reading in the 1970s and 1980s.

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    7. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

      The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

      • Date: July 16, 2020
      • Creator: Jessica Scott
      • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

      • Date: October 15, 2019
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives continually strives to add more collection information to its website. This is a periodic post highlighting new acquisitions and individual collection items.

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      Happy Trails, Anne Van Camp!

      • Date: February 20, 2018
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: On January 31, 2018, the Archives bid farewell to our Director, Anne Van Camp.Anne started at the Archives in March 2007. During her tenure here, the Archives experienced a tremendous period of growth for staff, programs and facilities. Smithsonian Institution Archives Director, Anne Van Camp, retires.

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      The Times They Are a-Changin' at The Bigger Picture

      • Date: November 2, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This period of extended telework has allowed The Bigger Picture team to slow down and strategize about the future of the blog. Read about a few of the changes coming your way.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Carolyn E. Jones

      • Date: February 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Carolyn E. Jones was the director of the Smithsonian’s Office of Human Resources between 1996 until her retirement in 2003. She initially joined the Institution in 1983 as a financial analyst and at various periods worked as the director of parking and as the chief financial officer for the Smithsonian’s mail order distribution division. Jones served as the chair of the

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      The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

      • Date: September 20, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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      Link Love: 6/15/2018

      • Date: June 15, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: As the Lichtenstein Foundation closes, half a million documents are coming to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art! [via NY Times]Bitcoin is entering the art market. [via Mutual Art]Hyperspectral scanning reveals Picasso's process during his "blue period." [via The Star]What could possibly connect Abraham Lincoln to vampires? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American

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      Remembering Robert McCormick Adams, Secretary 1984-1994

      • Date: January 29, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10199,size=500,center]Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1984 to 1994. He succeeded S. Dillon Ripley who had overseen a period of remarkable expansion from 1964 to 1984. Dr. Dr. Robert McCormick Adams (1926-2018) served as the ninth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1984 to 1994. An

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      MayDay as Earth Day

      • Date: April 30, 2020
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: As I write this crossover Preservation Week/MayDay post so close to Earth Day 2020 (the fiftieth anniversary), stunning news continues to break across the globe due to the coronavirus. Shining through the fog of worry, there have been surprising gains in a period of forced inactivity due to reduced emissions, such as record-breaking solar energy capture in Germany, and cleaner

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