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  1. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jacqueline Hicks Grazette

    • Date: June 24, 2020
    • 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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    Decoding Taxonomic Mysteries in Secretary Baird’s Correspondence

    • Date: May 17, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Archives was recently gifted an 1860 letter from Spencer F. Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian, to George N. Lawrence, fellow naturalist. The donor requested that, along with a digital version, a transcription be provided, which I undertook alongside a simple treatment. The letter was in overall excellent condition: the thin paper exhibited only a pair of small

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  5. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  7. A woman sits on a table. She is holding a tricycle on the table.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sharon Shaffer

    • Date: January 1, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Sharon Shaffer, Founding Director, Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center, 1988–2012, established a museum-based, educational program for young children at the Smithsonian. She also developed trainings and wrote numerous publications for educators. #Groundbreaker

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  9. Link Love: 7/23/2021

    • Date: July 23, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a biweekly 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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  11. One of the enlargements following treatment and mounting. Photo by Michael Barnes.

    Re-mounting the American Bison

    • Date: February 25, 2016
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: One of our recent projects, these photographic crayon enlargements, associated with founder of the National Zoo William Temple Hornaday, were made on sensitized paper that was then adhered to a linen “canvas” stretched around wooden frames. The paper had become brittle, and handling at some point in the past led to a number of punctures and tears through both the paper and the

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  13. Where is the Smithsonian?

    • Date: January 2, 2014
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: The simple question, "Where is the Smithsonian?," has always been a difficult one to answer.

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    May Day Motto: Be Prepared

    • Date: May 2, 2011
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: In honor of the Heritage Preservation organization’s annual MayDay initiative to protect cultural heritage from disasters, the Archives will be highlighting how we deal with emergencies and how you can prepare yourself in a series of blog posts. [caption id="attachment_12763" align="aligncenter" width="360" caption="This image is quite dark for a reason—in an emergency

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    Picturing Infinity: The Hubble Telescope’s Universal View

    • Date: May 11, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_827" align="aligncenter" width="242" caption="Spacecraft Hubble: Hubble in Flight, 2007, NASA"][/caption] Throughout May and June, we are inviting people throughout the Smithsonian to talk about photography and astronomy. Welcome Joseph Caputo, intern at the Smithsonian Magazine. In April 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was dropped off 353 miles above

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  19. Smithsonian employees hanging Christmas ornaments, 1977

    Tis the Season at the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 20, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: How the Smithsonian celebrated the holidays in 1977, and what traditions continue today!

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  21. Merzbach stands at the forefront of a photograph with three men and one woman standing behind her. They are in a computer lab.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Uta C. Merzbach

    • Date: December 30, 2020
    • 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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  23. 2 geometric silver vessels, one with handles on each side, one with a spout and handle

    Link Love: 3/9/2018

    • Date: March 9, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 2018 Women's History Month edition!Little-known Hungarian art deco designer, Ilonka Karasz, has a solo show at the Cooper Hewitt [via Antiques and the Arts Weekly]The New York Times is trying to right the gender imbalance in their obituary archive by adding obits for 15 historic women including activist Ida B. Wells, feminist poet Qiu Jin, and mathematician Ada Lovelace...with

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