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    Can Buildings Stack Up to the Images Made of Them?

    • Date: November 18, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3043" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Photograph of the Ames Monument, Wyoming, courtesy Phil Patton."][/caption] Looking at an illustrated real estate listing or brochure, have you ever been mesmerized by a wide angle and luxurious photograph of what you suspect is, in fact, a tiny studio apartment? Have you ever had the experience where all

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  3. Lisa Fthenakis, Program Assistant, Institution History Division, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: July 16, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Continuing our series on introducing new staff, I'd like to welcome our new Program Assistant for our Institution History Division, Lisa Fthenakis.

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  5. Link Love: 2/28/2020

    • Date: February 28, 2020
    • 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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  7. Helms interviews curator Keith E. Melder in four negative photographs.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Cynthia Helms

    • Date: April 21, 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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  9. Link Love: 8/14/2020

    • Date: August 14, 2020
    • 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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    An Intern’s Guide on How to Digitize a Field Book

    • Date: August 14, 2018
    • Description: What is a field book and how do you digitize one? These were the first two questions I asked when I came on board at the Archives as the Summer 2018 Field Book Project Digitization Intern. During the course of my internship, I discovered the answer to both questions and learned a lot about digitization practices and standards at the Smithsonian.According to the Biodiversity

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  13. Forest of Mississippi Valley, Black Walnut Tree

    Robert Ridgway: Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

    • Date: April 30, 2021
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Robert Ridgway, known primarily for his extensive contributions to ornithology and as curator of birds for the United States National Museum, was also a keen observer of the changing landscape in areas where he conducted his detailed studies.

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  15. Doris Mabel Cochran (left), herpetologist, was the first female curator for the Division of Reptiles and Amphibians at the Smithsonian. Doris Holmes Blake (right), was a coleopterist (scholar of beetles) and scientific illustrator. They were friends and colleagues and published over 175 scientific papers between them. 

    Women in Science Wednesday: Doris Mabel Cochran and Doris Holmes Blake

    • Date: September 18, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Learn how we recently confirmed a field book authored by Cochran with your help!

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  17. Image is of Karla Billups in front of the National Museum of Natural History.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karla E. Billups

    • Date: February 23, 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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  19. Portrait photograph of a woman wearing glasses and smiling toward the camera. She is wearing a striped top and a long necklace.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret S. Child

    • Date: May 25, 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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  21. Close up photograph of Motley.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sabrina Lynn Motley

    • Date: July 7, 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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  23. John N. Robinson, His Life and Work

    • Date: September 9, 2014
    • Description: I cannot, I feel, have any regrets about my accomplishments. What comes from art will just come. I don’t feel any need to strive. - John N. Robinson One of my favorite parts of working in an archive is the opportunity to immerse myself in other people’s worlds, to learn more about their stories and experiences. One such person I encountered recently was John N. Robinson, a

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