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  1. A woman wearing a lab coat studies a paper with a dried plant attached. Test tubes are on the desk in front of her.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke

    • Date: November 13, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Joan W. Nowicke, Curator, Department of Botany, was an internationally recognized palynologist specializing in pollen morphology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1972–99. Nowicke earned special recognition in the 1980s for her work studying “Yellow Rain,” which some governments alleged was a form of chemical biological warfare. #Groundbreaker

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  3. This image is found in Record Unit 74 - National Zoological Park, Records, 1887-1966 - Box 287, Smithsonian Institution Archives. The photograph was taken by Harris-Ewing photography services. The Library of Congress contains the Harris-Ewing Collection, but neither the librarians nor I have been able to find the original among the collection’s 50,000 entries.

    Sounding the Old Wolf-Cry

    • Date: November 14, 2013
    • Description: While researching my last blog post on the "mad wolf" who escaped from the National Zoo, I came across an old black-and-white photograph in the Smithsonian Institution Archives that caught my eye. The image is grainy, but appears to show a man and a wolf, separated by a chain-link fence, holding each other's rapt attention while the man operates some sort of recorder. Unable

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  5. Whiteboards and poster boards are covered in post-its. It’s difficult to make out what they say. Temporary desks are below the boards.

    Take a picture, it’ll last longer

    • Date: November 2, 2010
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: On what better day than Election Day to follow up on that tidbit I dropped a couple weeks ago regarding a consultation about then-candidate Barack Obama’s dry-erase boards, a recent acquisition by the National Museum of African American History and Culture? These artifacts, along with archival material and other realia (in archives terms: a man-made three-dimensional object)

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  7. Takashi and Kumi Sugiura smile at one another as they hold up art and fabric.

    Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura

    • Date: May 5, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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  9. Atatürk Bust, San Posta, 23 Temmuz 1931, SALT Research, https://www.flickr.com/photos/saltonline/14482745040/.

    You Asked, We Answered: 2014 Archives Facebook Q&A

    • Date: November 4, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: On Monday, October 27th, four of our finest were available on the Smithsonian's Facebook page to answer questions about preserving your own archival collections. The four archivists at the Q&A have specialties in the preservation and organization of audio/visual material, photos, and digital records (email, digital video, etc.) This is our fourth year hosting this event and

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  11. Press Preview invitation for the exhibition,

    Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice

    • Date: May 14, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."

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  13. Three circular graphite drawings, one typewritten note, and one annotated handwritten note. First drawing is of a torch with text: James Smithson 1765-1965 circling it. Second drawing is of James Smithson with text: James Smithson Bicentennial 1765-1965 circling it. Third drawing is of the sunburst with text: James Smithson 1765-1965 circling it. Typewritten note: suggested designs to be incorporated into all printed matter connected with the bi-centennial. Designer says medal design too complicated

    Goodbye, 2020: Working Through a Different Kind of Year

    • Date: December 31, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Despite so many setbacks this year, Archives staff has continued to serve our researchers.

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  15. Color portrait of Zoe Martindale standing and wearing a pink shirt

    Just Me and My Photos: Zoe Martindale SIA Image Cataloger

    • Date: April 16, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution has roughly six thousand volunteers and without them the work we do would not be possible. Here at the Smithsoinan Institution Archives, we have dedicated volunteers who help fufill our mission. One such volunteer is Zoe Martindale, who for sixteen years has carefully cataloged thousands of images and helped get them online for the public.

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    3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

    • Date: March 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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    Link Love: 2/11/2011

    • Date: February 11, 2011
    • 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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    Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 14, 2018
    • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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    The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

    • Date: October 3, 2017
    • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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