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      • Black and white photograph of SAO staff, including Nancy Prichard, then referenced to as Miss McCandlish, and Gladys T. Bond, referred to as Mrs. Bond.

        Early 20th-Century Women Computers at the Smithsonian

        • Date: August 12, 2021
        • Description: Learn about Florence A. Graves, Gladys Thurlby Bond, and Nancy Prichard, three 20th century women computers who advanced solar research.

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      • Love is in the Air, in the Field, and in the Lab

        • Date: February 14, 2011
        • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
        • Description: In the past, we’ve talked about how families of Smithsonian researchers helped out with research, and some have even lived in the Smithsonian itself. In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, it seems like love, too, has brought many couples together both at the Smithsonian and out in the field. Love, as you’ll see in the photos below, enabled some women to travel the world and get

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      • quatic microscope made by John Cuff of London, around 1750. National Museum of American History, cat. MG*M-09898.

        Link Love: 5/15/2015

        • Date: May 15, 2015
        • 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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      • This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man was carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, and lends a deeper understanding of what he may have looked like nearly 9,000 years ago. By Brittney Tatchell, August 25, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

        Link Love: 8/29/2014

        • Date: August 29, 2014
        • 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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          The Saint Augustine Monster

          • Date: August 18, 2010
          • Creator: Mary Markey
          • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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        • Link Love: 10/9/2020

          • Date: October 9, 2020
          • 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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        • A team of scientists used multiple lines of evidence, including archaeology, skeletal analyses, chemical testing, 3-D technology and genealogical research, to single out the names of the four men who died at Jamestown from 1608 through 1617. Photo by Donald E. Hurlbert.

          Link Love: 7/31/2015

          • Date: July 31, 2015
          • 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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          In the News

          • Date: August 1, 2011
          • Description: News about the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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        • Lopez stands in a line of three men and one woman. She and four other people are holding up a folder.

          Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ida Lopez

          • Date: January 12, 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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        • A tray of bumble bees from the National Museum of Natural History’s bee collection awaits digitization. The Smithsonian Transcription Center will allow virtual volunteers to help transcribe important data found on each specimen’s tag. This data will help scientists studying declining bee populations in North America. By John Gibbons, 2014, Smithsonian Institution.

          Link Love: 8/15/2014

          • Date: August 15, 2014
          • 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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