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  1. Black and white half-plate daguerreotype of a woman seen from the chest up, image is in a black frame

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2018

    • Date: May 22, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: This is the latest post in our "Hot Topix" series. In each quarterly edition we show you what the reference team has been up to, and bring you some of the more notable inuqires we have received.Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch

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  3. A group portrait of the members of the 1975 Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council.

    Women Carrying out the Work of Change in the 1970s

    • Date: January 5, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.

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  5. Robert Ridgway sits writing at his desk in his office located in the United States National Museum, Record Unit 7440 - American Ornithologists' Union, Records, 1871-1994, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-2291.

    International Migratory Bird Day

    • Date: May 5, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: To celebrate International Migratory Bird Day on May 9th, we will be releasing recently digitized specimen drawings by ornithologist Robert Ridgway (1850-1929.) Ridgway's career with the Smithsonian began in 1864 when he wrote asking for help identifying a bird. As they say, the rest is history. Starting in 1869, Ridgway became curator at the Smithsonian's United States

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    Destination: Niagara Falls

    • Date: July 22, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="Niagara Falls, by Platt D. Babbitt, 1854, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications, Photographic History Collection"][/caption] One of the top U.S. tourist destinations, Niagara Falls has been photographed countless times since the invention of photography in

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  9. Dr. Melissa K. McCormick, Plant Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, studies the interaction between plants and soil microbes. She uses genomics to understand endangered orchids. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Melissa K. McCormick

    • Date: April 15, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Melissa K. McCormick, Plant Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, studies the interaction between plants and soil microbes. She uses genomics to understand endangered orchids. #Groundbreaker

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    To have and to hold (snap) . . .

    • Date: December 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="392" caption="Miss Gloria Smith (Wedding) Deluxe Wedding Album, June 24,1956, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Cellulose acetate photonegative, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Call No. 0618.278269."][/caption] If events are heavily promoted as being once-in-a-lifetime

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    Live Blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair!

    • Date: October 22, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_9678" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="View of the Archives Fair setup, October 22, 2010."][/caption] We are going to be live blogging from the Smithsonian Archives Fair this morning and profiling all of the activities that will be going on today. Stay tuned throughout the day to see what's going on. [caption id="attachment_9680"

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  15. Portrait of African American woman with head resting in hand in front of colorful abstract art.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Rhea Combs

    • Date: November 29, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As head of the Center for African American Media Arts, National Museum of African American History and Culture, curator Dr. Rhea Combs leads effort to collect, preserve, and make accessible an extensive collection of films, photographs, and recordings documenting African American history. #Groundbreaker

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    Little Things Mean a Lot

    • Date: March 10, 2011
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="229" caption="Mary Alice McWhinnie (1922-1980) was a professor of biology at DePaul University and a world-renowned authority on krill when she began working on research ships off-shore in 1962, when this photograph was taken, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, cc. 90-105

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  19. Senior Scientist, Dr. Denise Breitburg, directs the Marine & Estuarine Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and has developed novel ways to investigate the impacts of dead zones and acidification on Chesapeake Bay fish and invertebrates. #Groundbreaker

    Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Denise Breitburg

    • Date: January 28, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Senior Scientist, Denise Breitburg, directs the Marine & Estuarine Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and has developed novel ways to investigate the impacts of dead zones and acidification on Chesapeake Bay fish and invertebrates. #Groundbreaker

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    New Feature! Sneak Peek

    • Date: May 18, 2011
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_13094" align="aligncenter" width="404" caption="Jefferson Memorial Cherry Blossoms at the Tidal Basin, 1983, by Jeff Tinsley, Color slide, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Negative Number 83-4105."][/caption] Today, we’re starting a new weekly feature that highlights images from the Archives’ historic Smithsonian Photographic Services collection.

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  23. #4 Empidideicus mariouti, Effl., 1945, Smithsonian Institution Ar SIA2012-7832.

    Audio, Video, and PDF's, Oh My!

    • Date: February 4, 2013
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives releases a new feature on their website which enables their finding aids to be marked up with available digitized media.

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