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  1. An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane

    • Date: January 19, 2012
    • Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.

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    Look! Up In the Sky! It's . . .

    • Date: July 1, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="Cascading Light, by Terry Mann."][/caption] It was 3 o’clock in the morning and something out of the ordinary was happening. And good neighbor that she is—although it might not seem that way to all of you—Terry Mann grabbed her camera then started waking people up. There wasn’t anything wrong in the neighborhood, but she

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    Happy Holidays from the Archives!

    • Date: December 25, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Happy holidays from the Smithsonian Institution Archives!

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  7. 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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    Keep the click! Stories Coming!

    • Date: April 9, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_450" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Yes we cancan have peace!"][/caption] As you can see from the exuberant photo above, we’ve been getting some great visitor contributions to our most recent click! photography changes everything call for entry in honor of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day. We just published the first visitor

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    Ecards for Women's History Month

    • Date: March 16, 2011
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Women's History Month is not only a good month to recognize and learn about inspiring women who have come before us, it is also the time to recognize women in our own lives who make a difference. If you have a mother, daughter, sister, spouse, or friend you'd like to recognize, drop her a line. For women who are inclined to a life of adventure, you may to send the Charlotte

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  13. Mom, can we keep him? Ummm, no.

    • Date: January 15, 2013
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: Robert F. Kennedy gave his children a sea lion named "Sandy" who was eventually donated to the National Zoological Park.

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    Politics: Prettier When Pictured

    • Date: December 8, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3084" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="President Obama conducts interviews in the Map Room 3/30/09. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza."][/caption] Some photographs, instead of illustrating the news, are designed to make news. Given the speed at which photographic images can be distributed, the audiences they reach, and the attention they

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  17. Dr. Clifford Evans and Dr. Betty J. Meggers, anthropologists at Museum of Natural History, 1968.

    Betty J. Meggers: Pioneer in Environmental Archaeology

    • Date: March 7, 2017
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life of Betty J. Meggers, an Anthropologist, who speciailized in pottery identification, conducted extensive field work in Amazon Rainforest region of South America, and was associated with the Smithsonian for more than five decades.

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  19. Happy New Year from the Archives!

    Happy New Year! ! !

    • Date: December 31, 2013
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: Happy 2014 from the staff of the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right

    • Date: April 20, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Perfect, by Bruce Berrien, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] At the turn of the 21st century, as federal organizations and private corporations were competing against each other in the race to decode the human genome, a number of exhibitions that explored areas where genetic science and visual imagery

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Nancy J. Bechtol

    • Date: February 26, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Nancy J. Bechtol has supervised all facilities engineering and management needs across the Smithsonian as director of Smithsonian Facilities since 2012. Previously, Bechtol was the director of Smithsonian Gardens, 1995–2002, and director of the Office of Facilities Management and Reliability, 2002–2012. #Groundbreaker

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