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    Reflections on Women's History Month

    • Date: May 7, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Throughout March, archivists from the Smithsonian Institution Archives archivists blogged about the women scientists in the Science Service Records (1902-1965). Here is a reflection on their experience.

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  3. Summer Wind to Ban-y-Bryn

    • Date: July 25, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: This blog piece is about summer weather in Washington, DC, the Alice Pike Barney collections here at SIA, and the Barney’s “summer cottage” in Bar Harbor, ME, “Ban-y-Bryn.”

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  5. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

    Open Minds Open Doors

    • Date: March 15, 2012
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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    Merging Chemistry and Nutrition: Pauline Gracia Beery Mack

    • Date: March 17, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="284" caption="Pauline Gracia Beery Mack (1891-1974), by Underwood & Underwood, Date unknown, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, SIA Acc. 90-105 (SIA-SIA2008-5750)."][/caption] For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be

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  9. Ruth Murray Underhill: Woman of the People

    • Date: March 21, 2013
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: The life of Ruth Murray Underhill, an Anthropologist, who worked with Native American tribes throughout the Southwest.

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    Bruff’s Artistic Code Cracked by Clever Collaborators

    • Date: December 28, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research, including a translated rebus letter.

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  13. Ellen speaks to visitors on a tour of collections in the Natural History Museum Building. She is holder up documents from a folder.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers

    • Date: April 7, 2021
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • 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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    Wisdom is in the head, and not in the beard...

    • Date: March 24, 2010
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="405" caption="Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997), 1967, by Smithsonian Institution

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    Family Vacation

    • Date: March 24, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.

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    A Surprise from Th Jefferson

    • Date: January 6, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="221" caption="At the turn of the century, visitors are entering and leaving the United States National Museum Building, now Arts and Industries Building, via the North Entrance, c. 1900, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 8, Negative Number:

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  21. Image of a machine with a large, bulky computer screen.

    Microfilm Reels in the 21st Century

    • Date: June 20, 2019
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief history on the invention and implementation of microfilm and our acquisition of a new, modern microfilm reader/scanner that enables us to provide digital access to and enhance the quality of SIA’s microfilm collections.

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    The Smithsonian Sent Healing Wheels to WWI

    • Date: June 21, 2011
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: One of the challenges of being a reference archivist is focusing on the inquiries received, while suppressing the bits of information you come across that may be of personal interest (the corner of my desk is occupied by an ever increasing list of topics I aspire to research further on my own time). Recently, however, a colleague who is familiar with my interest in rare and

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