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    1. Link Love: 07/24/2020

      • Date: July 24, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Smithsonian Magazine shares reflections on John Lewis’s legacy at the Smithsonian and beyond. [via Smithsonian Magazine] The newly renovated Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library awaits its first patrons! [via Washington Post][edan-image:id=siris_arc_389626,size=450,center]Paleontologist Lee Hall offers a handy (claw-y) guide to digging up dinosaur bones. [via Mateusz

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    3. Washington Monument under construction with U.S. Fish Commission hatching ponds in the foreground and Bureau of Engraving and Printing building in the background.

      The Little Aquarium That Could

      • Date: June 23, 2022
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: It's National Zoo and Aquarium Month! Let's explore the early days of the National Aquarium and its commitment to the promotion of marine science and aquaculture.

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    5. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

      • Date: May 25, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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    7. Painting on a square canvas with a large black circle in the center with various triangular shapes inside

      Uta C. Merzbach: Smithsonian's First Curator of Mathematical Instruments

      • Date: March 22, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Uta C. Merzbach was the Smithsonian's first curator of mathematical instruments. She brought her field to life with unique presentations of mathematical concepts and computer history.

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    9. United States Fish Commission Research Station

      Sneak Peek 12/17/2018

      • Date: December 17, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: United States Fish Commission research station, possibly along the Potomac River, 1880s, Glass negative [double exposure], SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5600.

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      Link Love: 11/4/2016

      • Date: November 4, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • 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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    13. Bald Eagle, by Peter Daverington. Photo: Camilla Cerea and Mike Fernandez/National Audubon Society

      Link Love: 12/18/2015

      • Date: December 18, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Whole new world - The Audubon Mural Project is a collaboration between the National Audubon Society and Gitler &_____ Gallery to commission murals of climate-threatened birds surrounding the old neighborhood of John James Audubon. [via Colossal]Barriers to entry - The exhibition, Y.C. Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding

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      The Smithsonian’s First Garden

      • Date: May 31, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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    17. United States Fish Commission (USFC) Staff Member Monitors McDonald Hatching Jars

      Sneak Peek 4/15/2019

      • Date: April 15, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: United States Fish Commission (USFC) staff member monitors McDonald hatching jars for the hatching of buoyant fish eggs at USFC research station, circa 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5611.

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      Science Sits for Art

      • Date: April 29, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Heads and Fragments of Heads of Humeri, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, 1865, by William Bell, Albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen

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    21. Black and white photograph of a woman holding a phone to her ear at a desk.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: LaVerne M. Love

      • Date: February 6, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: LaVerne M. Love, Women's Program Manager with the Office of Equal Opportunity, 1973–1980, was the executive officer of the Smithsonian Women's Council and wrote the organization's first bylaws. In 1976–77, she chaired the Civil Service Commission task force on minority women. At the time, she was the highest ranking African American woman at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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      Labor of Love: Art in Hard Times

      • Date: September 4, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_2167" align="aligncenter" width="185" caption="Biddle at work on Society Freed through Justice in the Justice Department Building, Washington, D.C. Photographer unknown. Federal Art Project, Photographic Division collection, 1935-1942. Archives of American Art."][/caption] This Monday, as we observe Labor Day in the midst of a serious economic

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