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  1. Color photo of woman giving presentation with image of suffragette projected in background.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lisa Kathleen Graddy

    • Date: April 19, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Deputy Chair of political history at the National Museum of American History, Lisa Kathleen Graddy, chooses artifacts to represent the American political landscape, and has curated popular exhibits on the first ladies and the women's suffrage movement. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Black and white photo of older caucasian woman with short hair.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever

    • Date: July 11, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker

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    When Photos Stop Being Pictures

    • Date: March 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Wallet, by Amanda Govaert, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] A recent article by Caitlin McDevitt in the Washington Post, describing Facebook’s expanding role as a hub for digital photography, while providing some surprising facts, raises one particularly interesting issue. As more people post and share

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    The Whole World's Watching: Photography & Terrorism

    • Date: March 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Privacy And Control, by Michael Pickard, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] It’s a sign of the times that we’re being watched often and everywhere. Surveillance, a word that once summoned up all things intrusive and sneaky, is part of everyday lexicon and experience.

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  9. Berlandier Fish (Pimelodus maculatus), Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Box 12, Folder 14, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

    • Date: June 5, 2014
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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  11. Color photo of couple looking at maps in office setting.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers

    • Date: January 11, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker

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  13. 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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    When Good People Love Bad Pictures

    • Date: August 19, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1954" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Squirrel Kisses, by Flickr user (Alex)."][/caption] It’s summer, so time for a break from serious thoughts about photographs, their meaning and impact. Instead, let’s relax and have a laugh about the pictures that make us laugh. A recent article in the business section of Time magazine describes how Ben

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  17. Grace Nicholson with the Karok man that she called Camp Creek George (at Klamath River), Grace Nicholson Photograph Collection, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Gardens

    Link Love: 4/25/2014

    • Date: April 25, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: With the running of the Boston Marathon this past week, be sure to check out Northeastern University's, "Our Marathon," a crowd-sourced, digital archive of pictures, videos, stories, and social media related to the Boston Marathon bombing. [via Ricc Ferrante, SIA]In the early days of my career as an archivist, I had the privilege of cataloging the papers of Grace Nicholson, a

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  19. Dorothy Maud Wrinch (1894-1976), philosopher and mathematician, was known for her theoretical work on protein structure.

    Women In Science Wednesday: Dorothy Maud Wrinch

    • Date: October 8, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.

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  21. Pediatrician Wynne Sharples (Ballinger) (1923-2008) was known for her advocacy work on cystic fibrosis and founded the Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute of Pennsylvania in 1960.

    Women In Science Wednesday: Wynne Sharples (Ballinger)

    • Date: October 22, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A weekly feature highlighting groundbreaking women in science.

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    The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

    • Date: September 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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