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  1. Colorful white translucent salamander with 6 purplish tendrils protruding from its head.

    Link Love: 11/24/2017

    • Date: November 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A salamander, the axolotl, found in Mexico that once numbered in the 6000s/square kilometer is now down to 35. [via Scientific American]As we know, the Biodiversity Heritage Library has a lot of gorgeous images of natural specimen, in fact over 2 million of them, and it includes some from the Archives! [via Open Culture]Beatles fans, John Lennon's stolen diary was recovered by

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  3. Brightly colored pink bird with long bill alongside more plainly colored, smaller bird lifting leg.

    Link Love: 8/25/2017

    • Date: August 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: 435 high resolution book plates of gorgeous illustrations from Audubon's The Birds of America are now available for free download! [via Hyperallergic]And after you're done with the plates, check out peacock feathers under a high magnification lens, by artist Waldo Nell. [via Wired]University students are working to save the remaining copies of a black-owned newspaper, The

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  5. 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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  7. Elmer S. Riggs and Mr. Klein with fossil rhinoceros skull in Paleontology Lab, 1899, Field Museum.

    Link Love: 11/27/15

    • Date: November 27, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Who doesn't love giant treasure-troves of historic photographs? Check out some amazing shots from the history of the Field Museum in Chicago. [via Wired]History detective: Researchers in Amsterdam used Google Maps to pinpoint the exact location of the house depicted in Johannes Vermeer's painting, “The Little Street.” [via Hyperallergic]Want to contribute to public history

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  9. Dr. Christine Jones Forman, Senior Astrophysicist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

    Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon: Women in Science

    • Date: March 14, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: You can participate in our second Wikipedia edit-a-thon with the goal of increasing the representation of women scientists on Wikipedia!

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  11. Physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf 1963

    Re-Prized

    • Date: December 9, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Highlight the women scientists in the Archives collections who have broken boundaries to capture the elusive Noble Prize.

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