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  1. A woman holds a book on a shelf and smiles directly at the camera.

    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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  3. 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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    SIA RU000448, National Collection of Fine Arts (U.S.) Office of Exhibition and Design, Records, 1964-1978

    • Date: 1964 1964-1978
    • Creator: National Collection of Fine Arts. Office of Exhibition and Design
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    Colors of photography – digital conservation on faded prints

    • Date: December 18, 2018
    • Creator: Charles Zange
    • Description: A few attempts to roll back the color shift on faded prints from 1955

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  9. A woman smiles at the camera in an up-close shot.

    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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    Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher

    • Date: August 23, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who

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    SIA RU007431, Whipple, Fred L (Fred Lawrence) 1906-2004, Fred Lawrence Whipple Papers, circa 1927-1983

    • Date: 1927 1927-1983 circa 1927-1983
    • Creator: Whipple, Fred L. (Fred Lawrence), 1906-2004
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. Kodak PCD file, 1996 converted to TIFF on left and Preservation Master of the same image converted to TIFF in 2014 on right. Accession 11-281 - National Museum of Natural History, Office of Public Affairs, Images, c. 1992-2010, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    The Importance of the Original

    • Date: February 25, 2014
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Keeping the original digital file is just as important as the preservation version.

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    Microsoft Word - EMAParserUserGuide.doc

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      SIA Acc. 99-124, Vaughan, Thomas Wayland 1870-1952, Thomas Wayland Vaughan Papers, 1908-1947 and undated

      • Date: 1908 1908-1947 1908-1947 and undated
      • Creator: Vaughan, Thomas Wayland, 1870-1952
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      Return of…the Beast

      • Date: October 31, 2019
      • Creator: Nora Lockshin
      • Description: In a return to the seasonal bonfire, we look at how fire and its suppression impacts boxed and unboxed optical disks.

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    • Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Wyoming and New Mexico, March 15-June 1906

      Journal kept by Bailey on field trip to Wyoming and New Mexico, March 15-June 1906

      • Date: 1906 19060315 19060603
      • Creator: Bailey, Vernon, 1864-1942

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