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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sylvia H. Williams

      • Date: October 18, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: African art scholar Sylvia H. Williams, directed the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, 1983-1996, and was one of the few women, and the only African American woman, serving at the time as director of a major American museum. #Groundbreaker

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      Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady of the National Collection of Fine Arts

      • Date: August 8, 2019
      • Description: Learn about Harriet Lane Johnston: First Lady, globetrotter, and founding donor of the Smithsonian American Art Museum!

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Merry A. Foresta

      • Date: June 16, 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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      Link Love: 6/15/2018

      • Date: June 15, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: As the Lichtenstein Foundation closes, half a million documents are coming to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art! [via NY Times]Bitcoin is entering the art market. [via Mutual Art]Hyperspectral scanning reveals Picasso's process during his "blue period." [via The Star]What could possibly connect Abraham Lincoln to vampires? The Smithsonian's National Museum of American

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer

      • Date: November 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Chief curator, Dr. Jacquelyn Days Serwer, Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), assembled the museum's art collection documenting 200 years of black visual expression. #Groundbreaker

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      Link Love: 10/13/2017

      • Date: October 13, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery has acquired the earliest known photograph of U.S. President John Quincy Adams. [via Art Fix Daily]For the last 3 decades, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics has amassed 100 years of protest art from around the world. [via AIGA]Related, how museum curators are collecting history as it happens, including those at our own

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    13. Color photograph of volunteer Joan Gilder siting in a preservation lab.

      Volunteer Spotlight: Joan Gilder

      • Date: April 24, 2018
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Joan Gilder has been a volunteer with the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Preservation Team for two decades, and has worked to treat many of our collections in order to increase their lifespan and improve access. She has been an invaluable asset to the Archives since she first began, and we are thrilled to share a little more about her story.What did you do before you began

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    15. Composite of 700 images from the Freer Ramayana.

      Link Love: 12/19/2014

      • Date: December 19, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On New Years Day 2015, the 44,000 works of art in the Smithsonian’s Freer | Sackler collection will be available online. [via WAMU] Dumpster diving! The National Museum of American History added a copy of the E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Atari 2600 game found in a landfill to their collection. [via O Say Can You See, National Museum of American History]The grand re-opening of

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    17. Francis Vandeveer Kughler in his studio with a model.

      Link Love: 3/23/2012

      • Date: March 23, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • 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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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary E. Massey

      • Date: March 10, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: From 1967 to 1991, Mary E. Massey broke barriers for women at the Smithsonian by demonstrating her skills in spaces typically reserved only for men. Though Massey arrived at the Smithsonian as an elevator operator, by her retirement, she was the building manager for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. In a column reserved for the Smithsonian

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      Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

      • Date: July 6, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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    23. 120th Anniversary brochure for the National Collection of Fine Arts (now the Smithsonian American Art Museum), 1966.

      Design + Archives - National Collection of Fine Arts

      • Date: April 22, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: A look back at some exhibition brochures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

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