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  1. Display of a wall of orchids inside the Hirshhorn Museum.

    Orchids and Oral History

    • Date: April 16, 2020
    • Description: Let’s learn about the history of Smithsonian Gardens’ annual orchid exhibit with a little help from former director Barbara Faust through her 2011 oral history interview.

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  3. D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson. Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2009-4133.

    Science Service, Up Close: A Meeting Of Minds

    • Date: April 7, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A rare meeting of the scientific minds at the 92nd Annual British Association Conference in 1924, captured by Science Service journalist Watson Davis.

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  5. Design for National Museum of African American History and Culture, 2010.

    An Intern Learns from Those Who Came Before

    • Date: August 16, 2016
    • Description: A brief tale of a Smithsonian summer internship and the experience, knowledge, and change that ensued.

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  7. Formal black and white headshot of a woman wearing earrings and a necklace, smiling slightly.

    Mildred Stratton Wilson

    • Date: March 3, 2022
    • Description: We’re exploring the career of a Smithsonian barrier-breaker in marine biology.

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    Hide and Seek

    • Date: December 9, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_10342" align="alignleft" width="228" caption="Miss Willey Glover DeNis, (1879-1929), Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA2008-0987."][/caption] At the Archives, we often run across images that have minimal information associated with them. Sometimes it’s a number or a name (usually incomplete) or a year. It is rare to find a beautifully complete

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    Seeing the Invisible

    • Date: May 11, 2009
    • Description: Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. This is the first installment from Megan Watzke, Press Officer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. Most people think of a telescope as something in a backyard or the dome at the local planetarium. And it’s true that many telescopes are designed to

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    Scientists Arrive in Dayton...and Find a Mansion

    • Date: July 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  15. Keepsake pocket bank for the National Negro Memorial, ca. 1926

    The First Quest for a National African American Museum

    • Date: September 22, 2016
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: As National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, let’s look at the first efforts to establish a National African American Museum.

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  17. Portrait of Dr. Follette with graphic of text

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

    • Date: August 23, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Independent scholar and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, researches the popularization science through the media, and has helped raise the profile of close to 1000 female scientists found in the collections at the Archives! #Groundbreaker

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  19. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  21. A man points to a bent bolt attached to a metal support.

    The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

    • Date: August 19, 2021
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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  23. NPPTL’s promotional graphic of a nurse wearing a respirator next to the words N95 Day 2018.

    Preserve Us From Particulates: Celebrating N95 Day

    • Date: September 4, 2018
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: N95 Day is sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to promote the safe and proper use of N95 face respirators.

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