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  1. Hamilton stands on the right with three men. The group is looking down at a model of Washington, D.C.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Susan A. Hamilton

    • Date: August 4, 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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    Mothers Day Inspiration

    • Date: May 9, 2017
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Get ready for Mother's Day with these images of Smithsonian staff and their families caring for young animals.

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    An Accidental Archivist...

    • Date: July 15, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: I was reading one of Holland Cotter’s reviews of an art exhibition in the New York Times a couple of weeks ago, when I came across a description of a show that was about to close and wished I’d been able to see. At a space run by the Esopus Foundation, Bob Warner, a New York artist and optician, was opening, one box at a time, the cartons of material that another artist, Ray

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    See Here: 5/10/2010

    • Date: May 10, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: Profile of the bust of Dr. William Henry Holmes, first curator of the National Collection of Fine Arts, The bust was sculpted by Moses W. Dykaar, 1922, photograph by Smithsonian Institution photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 311 Box 27 Folder 3, Negative Number: 2002-12137.

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    See Here: 5/3/2011

    • Date: May 3, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Court of Neptune Fountain, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, Local Number: SIA2010-1994."][/caption]

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  11. Perros Dingo (Dingo Dogs), 1960s. Illustrations from the Barcelona Zoo Guide Book.

    International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part I

    • Date: June 13, 2017
    • Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.

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  13. Black & white portrait with woman in glasses, in her office, looking off to side.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret C. Blaker

    • Date: February 8, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  15. Worker collects crude gum on turpentine farm, 1880s.

    Sneak Peek 8/20/18

    • Date: August 20, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Worker collects crude gum on turpentine farm, 1880s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-5660.

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  17. Harrison E. Howe, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID 2008-3958.

    Hitting the Right Note: Science or Sensationalism?

    • Date: November 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A look at the line between science and sensationalism in the Science Service.

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  19. How Many Birds Have You Seen Today?

    • Date: January 5, 2012
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Christmas Bird Count was begun in 1900 by the Audubon Society. Many Smithsonian staff have participated in it in the decades since then.

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  21. Botanist Mary Agnes Chase was and expert in grasses, as well as a suffragette.

    Vote Women in Science

    • Date: August 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is that scrappy time of year where we ask you to nominate your favorite Smithsonian collection, experience, or in the Archives' case, people. We typcially refer to them as groundbreakers. We have some stiff competition in the science category with the Hope Diamond and the 3D Lincoln Life Mask, however, we feel Smithsonian female scientists have made such a significant

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    Our Other, Photographic Selves

    • Date: March 25, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Ralph Waldo Emerson, between 1860 and 1870, by J. W. Black & Co., Photographic print on carte-de-visite mount, Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer family papers, 1851-1999 bulk 1881-1950, Archives of American Art, Digital ID: 5677. "][/caption] From the beginning, photography upset conventional ideas about the relationship

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