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      The Flying Tigers and the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 9, 2011
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: Have you ever wondered why museums choose the exhibition topics they do? These are the kinds of questions that the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ historic records of exhibitions can sometimes help us answer. An idea could stem from the personal interest of a curator, reflect an institution’s holdings, be inspired by comments from a visitor, or be designed around a specific

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    3. Image of a blue background and white outlines of long algae with uneven, split-off ends.

      Link Love: 11/23/2018

      • Date: November 23, 2018
      • 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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    5. Flyer with a sketch of a Kwanzaa table, a list of symbols, and a list of the seven principles.

      Celebrating Kwanzaa at the Anacostia Community Museum

      • Date: December 5, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.

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    7. Six festival participants on wooden stage holding ukuleles with visitors looking on.

      Talk Story: Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center

      • Date: May 18, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at the history of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in honor of Asian Pacific American heritage Month.

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      A New Look at the Smithsonian: Louise Hutchinson

      • Date: September 29, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Louise Hutchinson taught us about African American history in Washington, D.C., and in the Smithsonian itself.

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    11. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

      • Date: May 12, 2022
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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    13. Mary S. M. Gibson, January 1954, Frank J. Gilloon Agency, Record Unit 267: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Records, 1881, 1895-1976, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Women in Humanities

      • Date: March 3, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: To kick off Women's History month, a look at some of the women in humanities represented in the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections.

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      Science Service, Up Close: Charles Bittinger and the Worlds of Science and Art

      • Date: December 6, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The work of painter Charles Bittinger, bridging the worlds of science and art.

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    17. View of a snow-topped mountain. At the center of the photographs is a tree with trimmed branches and no leaves.

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021

      • Date: April 8, 2021
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    19. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2019

      • Date: March 26, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: We highlight a few topics explored by SIA researchers this winter.

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    21. Black and white half-plate daguerreotype of a woman seen from the chest up, image is in a black frame

      Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

      • Date: May 22, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch

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    23. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

      Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

      • Date: August 2, 2018
      • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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