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    1. Majewski crouches down near two children, who are not looking toward the camera.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Janice Majewski

      • Date: May 19, 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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    3. 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States

      Reconstructing William Temple Hornaday’s 1888 Extermination Series

      • Date: March 2, 2017
      • Description: A look at taxidermist turned conservationist William Temple Hornaday's "Extermination Series" highlighting the environmental impact of man on North American mammals.

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    5. Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Tracks, 1882, Harpers Weekly, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-78090.

      Quidditch in Henry Park?

      • Date: April 3, 2014
      • Description: This coming weekend muggles from around the world will be participating in the International Quidditch Association’s World Cup; but did you know that this growing sport may have a Smithsonian connection?

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    7. Portrait photograph of Evangelestia-Dougherty. Trees are in the background.

      Smithsonian Names Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty Director of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

      • Date: October 6, 2021
      • Description: On October 5, 2021, the Smithsonian announced that Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty will be the new director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, effective Nov. 6.

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    9. Computer rendering of concentric pink and silver tubes

      Link Love: 4/21/2017

      • Date: April 21, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Get ready for this summer's big installation at the National Building Museum: Hive. [via WAPO]Want to play old school games like Frogger? The Internet Archive has a Mac game emulator for you! [via Wired]Produce art. [via Colossal]A series of tutorials from the American Alliance of Museums, Becoming a Data Startup (for museums). [via AAM]470,000 images from Europeana are now

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      See Here: 10/19/2010

      • Date: October 19, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="446" caption="Visitors to the National Museum of American History (NMAH) Military History Hall, costumed in Revolutionary attire for the Treaty of Paris Bicentennial celebration held on the grounds around the Washington Monument, 1983, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives,

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    13. Sidedoor Season 2: if these bones could talk

      Sidedoor Podcast: Megatherium Club

      • Date: June 22, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_5844,size=250,left]A staff-favorite story in the Smithsonian’s history is that of the Megatherium Club — a revolving group of young naturalists who made the Castle their temporary home in between expeditions to the outer reaches of the United States. Who could not be intrigued by this photo of the Club where they look to be sharing a joke, or a plan?

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      Beautiful Dreamers

      • Date: December 15, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_3320" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Haggard Family II, February 2005, courtesy of Sandy Puc’ and the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation."][/caption] When we began work on click!, it seemed obvious that somehow, someway, we’d have to find someone to explore how photography impacts our encounters with death. Many writers about

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      Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial

      • Date: August 10, 2020
      • Description: The Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.

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    19. Link Love: 10/19/2018

      • Date: October 19, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: The Theodore Roosevelt Papers are now digitized and available online through the Library of Congress Digital Collections. Don't try browsing all at once—there are over 450,000 images! [via Library of Congress][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9575,size=300,center]With the help of ground-penetrating radar, the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Research has discovered a thousand-year-old

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    21. DC workers evacuate to the National Mall, August 23, 2011.

      All Shook Up: A History of Earthquakes at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 21, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Here at the Smithsonian we love to observe. So of course on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM, when a 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the Washington, DC region and many of us with it, we immediately started to observe what happened and how we could document it. As the Institution's historians, inevitably we needed to know, had this happened before and what were the effects? After

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    23. Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, by Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum, Image ID# WEB14831-2015.

      Link Love: 12/10/15

      • Date: December 11, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A new exhibit and publication from the National Air and Space Museum looks at the architectural beauty of airport towers with photos by Carolyn Russo. [via Weather.com]“The government must take the lead in reinvesting in the arts and humanities,” according to Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton. [via Washington Post]The Smithsonian made a 3D scan of Apollo 11 from the National

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