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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Asma Naeem

    • Date: April 4, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Media Arts, Dr. Asma Naeem, was an attorney and public servant prior to studying art history, and researches the history of technology and the sensorial imagination of both artist and beholder. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Phyllis Rudstrom Brenner

    • Date: January 19, 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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  5. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

    • Date: December 4, 2012
    • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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    Link Love: 12/16/2011

    • Date: December 16, 2011
    • 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: Alice Cunningham Fletcher

    • Date: October 5, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher (left), contributor to the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, was one of the 1st female ethnologists, a founding member of the American Anthropological Association, and the 1st female president of the American Folklore Society. #Groundbreaker

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  11. 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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    Link Love: 8/6/2010

    • Date: August 6, 2010
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Exploring the National Parks

    • Date: August 1, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: August is National Parks Month, but the Smithsonian has celebrated the National Park Service for decades! Enjoy a selection of national parks images from the Archives' collection.

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    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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    Link Love: 5/19/2017

    • Date: May 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: An early infographic explaining Earth in case of chance alien encounters, from 1972! [via Co.Design]A peek at the the 1st weather dataset collected by the Smithsonian in the late 19th century, and what it means about archival practices around data. [via Process History]How Chuck Berry's bright red Cadillac almost didn't make it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African

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  21. Link Love: 1/31/2014

    • Date: January 31, 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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    Link Love: 4/5/2019

    • Date: April 5, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • 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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