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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jackie Swift

      • Date: July 24, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Jacquetta (Jackie) Swift, Repatriation Manager, National Museum of the American Indian, 2003–present, supervises the domestic and international repatriation program and develops and implements repatriation policies and procedures at the museum. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Melanie R. Bond

      • Date: October 17, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Biologist and primate keeper, Melanie R. Bond, was the first woman gorilla keeper at the National Zoo and co-authored the "Orangutan (Pongo) Care Manual" for the Association of Zoos & Aquariums. #Groundbreaker

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    5. Color portrait photograph of National Museum of African Art curator, Dr. Karen Milbourne.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Karen Milbourne

      • Date: September 19, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Curator Dr. Karen Milbourne, National Museum of African Art, studies the arts of western Zambia and contemporary African art. Her exhibition "Visionary: Viewpoints on Africa's Arts" won an Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC) Excellence in Exhibitions award. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Lisa Stevens

      • Date: October 3, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: Lisa Stevens, National Zoological Park, was senior curator for mammals and managed all aspects of the giant panda program. In over thirty years at the Zoo she worked with more than thirty different species. #Groundbreaker

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      Science Service, Up Close: "Stealth Authors" and An Appreciation of Honesty

      • Date: March 24, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: "Stealth Authors" and an appreciation of honesty when it came to women writers of science in the early 20th century.

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    11. Doodles sketched by John F. Kennedy, 1961.

      Art in the Margins: John F. Kennedy's "Doodles in Dimension"

      • Date: November 10, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: President John F. Kennedy's doodles were given a new dimension by local Washington, D.C. sculptor Ralph M. Tate and the Anacostia Community Museum.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine "Kitty" Scott

      • Date: July 3, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Catherine “Kitty” Scott, Chief Librarian and Director, National Air and Space Museum Library, 1972–94, began organizing, planning, and maintaining the new library well before the museum had opened. For her efforts, Scott earned the Superior Service Award In 1976. #Groundbreaker

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    15. Valerie Fletcher stands and talks with two other people in a gallery space in front of a sculpture and paintings.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Valerie Fletcher

      • Date: March 11, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Valerie Fletcher joined the research staff at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 1978 and was promoted to a curatorial role in 1984. Fletcher worked as an Assistant and Associate Curator, 1984–92, Curator of Sculpture, 1992–2005, and Senior Curator, 2005–16. In retirement, Fletcher continues her research at the Museum as Senior Curator Emerita. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Evelyn Hankins

      • Date: January 30, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Evelyn Hankins, Senior Curator, has worked for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden since 2007. She curated major exhibitions, such as Directions: Jennie C. Jones: Higher Resonance (2013), Robert Irwin: All the Rules Will Change (2016), and Mark Bradford Pickett's Charge (2017–2021). Hankins has also been a vocal advocate for increased women's leadership in the art

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    19. A woman in a long, strapless dress sits in a chair and looks upward. Eye masks hang on the wall behind her.

      Link Love: 11/16/2018

      • Date: November 16, 2018
      • 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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      Link Love: 12/14/2018

      • Date: December 14, 2018
      • 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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    23. Washington Monument grounds ceremony at which Charles Lindbergh was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, 1927.

      Science Service, Up Close: “Charlie Is My Darling” — Lindbergh in Washington, June 1927

      • Date: February 2, 2017
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: On June 11, 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh, and his plane Spirit of St. Louis, arrived back in the United States, and Washington, D.C. threw a party.

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