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  1. Zoidis stands in front of a Star-Spangled Banner exhibit.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Zoidis

    • Date: December 15, 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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    What’s in a Name? The Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: June 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: On June 16, 2006, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum changed its name for the third time, signaling a renewed focus on local Black history and beyond.

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  5. Link Love: 7/19/2019

    • Date: July 19, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • 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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  7. Front cover of an exhibition pamphlet. It has a brown-ish streak down the middle and a red cross at the top center.

    M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Exhibit

    • Date: July 30, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thirty-six years ago today, M*A*S*H: Binding Up the Wounds opened at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the response was overwhelming.

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  9. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

    Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 2, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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  11. A man and woman stand in front of four exhibit cases of coins and paper currency.

    The Rich Legacy of Elvira Clain-Stefanelli

    • Date: March 18, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Though small in stature, Elvira Clain-Stefanelli was a force to be reckoned with at the Smithsonian, where she earned the role of the first executive director of the National Museum of American History’s National Numismatic Collection.

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  13. One woman and two men view a wall in an exhibit at a museum. The wall appears to be made of stone.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret Simmons Vining

    • Date: August 3, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Margaret Simmons Vining was a museum specialist and later curator of armed forces history at the National Museum of American History from 1983 until her death in 2018.In addition to curating major exhibitions and building the division’s collections, she founded and supervised the Smithsonian Archive of Women’s Military History. Together with her longtime collaborator and life

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  15. A whale model hangs from the ceiling in an exhibit hall.

    Archives Puzzles: The Scale of the Whale

    • Date: February 22, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  17. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

    • Date: June 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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  19. Lonnie G. Bunch III stands in an office in front of a cluttered bookshelf.

    Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020!

    • Date: December 31, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2020, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2019.

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  21. Digital contact sheet that includes 12 photographs of Jones standing in front of the Smithsonian Castle. He is wearing a suit. He looks directly toward the camera and slightly off into the distance in various photographs.

    The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones

    • Date: February 17, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.

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    Wait. Did That Really Happen? Snake Smashin’

    • Date: April 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Explore what happened in 1969 when a man brought a hatchet and butcher knife to Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to attack a display of snakes.

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