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    1. Mori Arinori: Japanese Statesman

      • Date: May 30, 2013
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: In 1872, at the young age of twenty-five, Mori Arinori (1847-1889) traveled to America as the first Charge d’Affaires from the Meiji government. His trip included a visit to the Smithsonian where he established a close relationship with Smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry.

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    3. Fellows, second from the left, stands with five men in front of the Museum, then at the Carver Theater.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Balcha G. Fellows

      • Date: February 9, 2022
      • 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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    5. Link Love: 10/25/2019

      • Date: October 25, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    7. Mieri stands in front of an exhibit case with a panel, titled

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Magdalena Mieri

      • Date: November 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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      Publicity, Politics, and Physics

      • Date: March 10, 2010
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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    11. Sen. John F. Kennedy campaigns with his wife in Boston, 1958, by Carl Mydans.

      The Good Wife

      • Date: September 28, 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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      Politics: Prettier When Pictured

      • Date: December 8, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3084" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="President Obama conducts interviews in the Map Room 3/30/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza."][/caption] Some photographs, instead of illustrating the news, are designed to make news. Given the speed at which photographic images can be distributed, the audiences they reach, and the attention they

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    15. Winnie-the-Pooh, Kanga, Piglet, Eeyore, and Tigger, 1925, photo courtesy New York Public Library.

      Link Love: 1/29/2016

      • Date: January 29, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The original, well-loved stuffed animals the characters in Winnie the Pooh books are based upon, from NYPL. [via Open Culture]If you live in Wisconsin, you'd better return those overdue library books. [via Info Docket]Art Nouveau posters, interactive lessons on WWI, silver plate photography; some of the 48,796,394 artworks, artefacts, books, videos and sounds from across

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      Link Love: 2/22/2013

      • Date: February 22, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    19. 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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    21. Specimen card from the Presidential Cruise of 1938.

      The Oval Office meets the Castle: Presidents at the Smithsonian

      • Date: November 8, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: The Smithsonian Castle sits just over a mile away from Washington D.C.’s most notable address,1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. We are more than just a short walk away from the White House, however—we are directly tied to it and its occupants. Not only does the Smithsonian collect the history of United States Presidents (including, yes, Lincoln’s top hat and even the hair of a few

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    23. Marvin Heiferman, Courtesy of Marvin Heiferman.

      Cheers to Marvin Heiferman

      • Date: October 12, 2011
      • 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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