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  1. Smithsonian Gardens' Cindy Brown in front of the gardenias at the Enid A. Haupt Garden.

    Link Love: 6/16/2017

    • Date: June 16, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    Diminutive but Determined: Mary Jane Rathbun

    • Date: March 6, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Mary Jane Rathbun, diminutive but determined, was the first full time female curator at the Smithsonian.

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  5. A sketch by William Henry Holmes, Cozumel, Mexico, 1895.

    Sketching with William Henry Holmes

    • Date: December 8, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Celebrate the life and work of William Henry Holmes with coloring pages created from sketches in his field notes!

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    “Love, Doris”

    • Date: March 12, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While digitizing the collection of Smithsonian entomologist Doris Holmes Blake, I discovered a treasure trove of correspondence that sheds light about growing up as a young woman in the mid-20th century and the story of an intimate mother-daughter relationship.

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    Empress Cixi: Scanned and Discovered

    • Date: June 3, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Exhibitions and Weather Conditions at an Exposition

    • Date: May 29, 2012
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution’s involvement in the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, California.

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    A Tale of Coffee and Collecting

    • Date: November 30, 2010
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Archives are often used by genealogists to create their family histories. Often it's a tedious process that can involve many repositories throughout the country or even the world, but the final product can be fascinating. Take, for instance, Melbourne ("Mel") Romaine Carriker's Vista Nieve: The Remarkable True Adventures of an Early Twentieth Century Naturalist and His Family

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  15. Color photograph of a handheld field notebook opened, and displaying a sketch of a rural landscape.

    Exhibiting the Smithsonian Institution Archives: A Look Back

    • Date: May 15, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_13754,size=400,center]When people think of a Smithsonian exhibit, they probably don’t think of one filled with documents from an archives! A piece of paper doesn’t grab your attention from across the room, as the Fénykövi elephant or Chuck Berry’s car do. But on closer inspection, handwritten scraps have fascinating stories to tell. They can be

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  17. Black and white image of man standing on boat with ocean in the background.

    Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?

    • Date: October 12, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific

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    In Memoriam: Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

    • Date: December 17, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives remembers Riccardo Giacconi (1931–2018)

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    Behind the Veil

    • Date: March 4, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Veiled Woman with Pearls, c. 1890, by Antoin Sevruguin, Gelatin silver print, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Myron Bement Smith Collection, Gift of Katharine Dennis Smith, 1973–85, Image ID: 2.07."][/caption] The Archives of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery contain a collection of

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    Link Love: 3/11/2011

    • Date: March 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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