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      Mary Agnes Chase

      • Date: April 4, 2017
      • Description: [view in Spanish][edan-image:id=siris_sic_9227,size=200,left]The foremost grass specialist of her time ended her formal education after grammar school. She began collecting and illustrating plants in her twenties, and was hired by Chicago's Field Museum in 1901 and later as a botanical illustrator for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Scientific illustration was a way for

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    3. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

      Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

      • Date: October 24, 2019
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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      Introduction

      • Date: December 5, 2016
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8768,size=300,left] The Smithsonian has been the home to creative individuals since its founding in 1846. Scientific illustrators sketched insect wings, taxidermists prepared dioramas of life groups, expedition photographers captured the majestic geology of the American West, and designers arranged objects in exhibit displays.Many of the Smithsonian

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    7. drawing or engravings of bird heads, The bird is black with a white color on its wing. A fuller sketch is in the center and surrounded by three sketches of bird heads.

      Link Love: 4/10/2020

      • Date: April 10, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: For Draw a Bird Day, Smithsonian Libraries highlights the work of some of the Smithsonian’s youngest scientific illustrators. [via Smithsonian Libraries] [edan-image:id=siris_arc_369082,size=450,center]THE CITY features the archives and museums working to collect documentation of New Yorkers’ experiences during the pandemic. [via THE CITY]The latest in movie recs: historical

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      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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        Celebrate Women’s History Month with the Smithsonian Transcription Center!

        • Date: March 9, 2021
        • Creator: Jessica Scott
        • Description: Help us transcribe the records of groundbreaking Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake.

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      • George Venable, by Minor-Penland, Laurie, 1994, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 94-1492-7A.

        George Venable

        • Date: 1994
        • Creator: Minor-Penland, Laurie
        • Creator: Minor-Penland, Laurie

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      • John H. Richard's Studio with Casts for Fisheries Exposition

        John H. Richard's Studio with Casts for Fisheries Exposition

        • Date: 1879
        • Creator: Unknown
        • Creator: Unknown

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      • Elaine R. S. Hodges

        Elaine R. S. Hodges

        • Date: April 1989
        • Creator: Strauss, Richard
        • Creator: Strauss, Richard

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        Doris Mable Cochran (1898-1968) Herpetologist/Weaver

        • Date: December 5, 2016
        • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9837,size=200,left]In her leisure hours, noted herpetologist Doris Cochran was a skilled fiber artist. She collected the fur shed by her many pet Persian and Angora cats, spun it into yarn, and wove blankets that she gave to friends and colleagues. Cochran began her career as an aide in the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians in 1918, rising to the

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        A delicate art: artists, wildflowers and native plants of the West

        • Date: C2012
        • Creator: Laviolette, Mary-Beth
        • Creator: Laviolette, Mary-Beth

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