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  1. Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

    Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

    • Date: January 7, 2020
    • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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    A Living Exhibition

    • Date: July 19, 2011
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution has long been known for both its original research and its exhibitions. But, it was not until 1980 that the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) first exhibited an on-going active research project, the world's first indoor living coral reef.[edan-image:id=siris_sic_7411,size=450,center]In the late 1960s, when NMNH paleobiologist Walter H. Adey

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  5. From the field notebook of Robert H. Gibbs, Jr.

    Scientific Snack Breaks: Picnics in the Field Books

    • Date: July 13, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Go on a picnic through the field book collection, with a look at scientific snack breaks.

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  7. Portrait of Mara Mayor.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Mara Mayor

    • Date: November 10, 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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  9. Color photo of woman wearing dress made of pixelated fabric alongside woman wearing skirt with text on it.

    Link Love: 3/2/2017

    • Date: March 3, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Get your metadata nerd on with new fashion by Andrea Wallace from the Rijksmuseum's 2017 Rijksstudio competition! The largest transgender archive from the University of Victoria is now on the Internet Archive. [via Archive It]The Center for the Future of Museums has released their 2017 TrendsWatch report highlighting empathy, criminal justice reform, refugees & migration,

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  11. A military pension card for Harrison Lomax. He filed in Virginia and is listed in the class

    Harrison Lomax: Smithsonian Employee, Civil War Veteran, Husband, Father

    • Date: September 1, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: As a laborer at the Smithsonian from 1882 until his death in 1918, Harrison Lomax served the Institution’s top leaders. A letter in our collections that he wrote to Secretary Samuel P. Langley is an example of the ways in which African American employees advocated for themselves in order to earn promotions and raises.

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  13. Untitled, by Thomas Smillie, 1900, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Medicine and Science. Photograph taken as part of expedition to view the solar eclipse of May 1900 in Wadesboro, North Carolina. Note the elaborate tent that housed the Smithsonian’s large horizontal telescope.

    Smillie and the 1900 Eclipse

    • Date: June 9, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    A very jolly day...

    • Date: December 23, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah, c. 1907, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Records, 1902-1965 (Record Unit 7091), Image ID: SIA2009-0983."][/caption] Alright, I admit it. I often write about the Walcott family and why not?

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    It’s a (sea) Bird!

    • Date: August 16, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Enjoy a collection of images documenting pelagic birds from the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey Program.

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    Link Love: 11/26/2010

    • Date: November 26, 2010
    • 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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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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  23. Colorful white translucent salamander with 6 purplish tendrils protruding from its head.

    Link Love: 11/24/2017

    • Date: November 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A salamander, the axolotl, found in Mexico that once numbered in the 6000s/square kilometer is now down to 35. [via Scientific American]As we know, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has a lot of gorgeous images of natural specimen, in fact over 2 million of them, and it includes some from the Archives! [via Open Culture]Beatles fans, John Lennon's stolen diary was recovered by

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