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  1. Bird observations recorded by Alexander Wetmore in Wisconsin, 1901.

    Alexander Wetmore: Observing the Making of a Scientist

    • Date: January 5, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: On National Bird Day, a look at the long and illustrious ornithology career of Smithsonian Secretary Alexander Wetmore.

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  3. The Tropical Travels of George C. Wheeler - Part I

    • Date: January 10, 2013
    • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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  5. 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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  7. Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collections, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-4347.

    Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist

    • Date: January 14, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.

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  9. 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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    Science Service, Up Close: White House Science Advisors, from Roosevelt to Nixon

    • Date: May 11, 2017
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: May 11 is the anniversary of establishment of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). That 1976 legislation further ratified the influence of scientists on national policy, positioning them to provide ready advice to the President.

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  13. 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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  15. Secretary Adams: A Fascination with Fieldwork

    • Date: September 13, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Learn more about Secretary Robert Adams through his oral histories, which are newly available for research.

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  17. In the 1930s, Anthropologist Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) conducted groundbreaking research on Alaskan Natives with Danish ethnologist Kaj Birket-Smith (1893-1977) (at right).

    Women in Science Wednesday: Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna

    • Date: June 11, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    A Short History of Photography from Cigar Box to Cell Phone

    • Date: June 23, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="448" caption="Portrait of Dorothy Catherine Draper, copy of the original photo by John Draper, created by Daniel Draper, 1893, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications."][/caption] Imagine that you are the first person to take a photograph. What would you

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  21. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

    Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

    • Date: August 22, 2017
    • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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  23. Two women stand near a poster for Black Gold. The woman on the left is pointing toward the poster.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marquette Folley

    • Date: February 16, 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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