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  1. Nahwooksy stands behind a man on the National Mall. A small tent is behind her.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Clydia Nahwooksy

    • Date: December 1, 2021
    • 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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  3. Smith sits at a desk in front of a pile of papers and an older-looking computer.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Barbara J. Smith

    • Date: May 12, 2021
    • 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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  5. Portrait of woman, standing in front of a backdrop, wearing a long dress with large sleeves.

    The Woman Behind the Camera

    • Date: March 28, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: A closer look at Smithsonian's first woman photographer, Louisa Bernie Gallaher.

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  7. Link Love: 5/24/2013

    • Date: May 24, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  9. Dried plant speciman.

    Found in the Archives: The Trail of a Naturalist Pirate

    • Date: September 19, 2017
    • Creator: Jessica Lavin
    • Description: Barbeque. Doughboy. Free trade. Pumple-nose. Smugglers. Cortan. Crockadore. Chopsticks. William Dampier, the 17th century explorer turned privateer/pirate, is credited with introducing these words, and more than 1,000 others, into the English vernacular. He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe three times, and created the first detailed record of Australian Flora

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  11. Portrait of a young woman with short, wavy hair. She is looking directly at the camera with a slight smile.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marsha E. Sitnik

    • Date: June 1, 2022
    • 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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  13. Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives

    • Date: May 2, 2013
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.

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  15. Link Love: 4/26/2013

    • Date: April 26, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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  17. Marion Stirling Pugh holds an iguana. She is wearing field work clothes.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marion Stirling Pugh

    • Date: May 27, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Marion Stirling Pugh began her career with the Smithsonian in 1931 as a secretary for her future husband, Matthew Stirling, Chief of the Bureau of Ethnology. For the next 40 years, the couple studied Olmec culture and the connection to greater Mesoamerica and South America. Pugh served as the president of the Society of Women Geographers from 1960 to 1963 and from 1969 to

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  19. The reconstructed Arch of Palmyra in Trafalgar Square (photo via @george_lythe_1/Instagram)

    Link Love: 4/22/16

    • Date: April 22, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Palmyra's Arch de Triumph (recreated) stands again in London, brought to you by 3D tech. [via Hyperallergic]New digital collection available; Cold War archives. [via InfoDocket]A new book of Pablo Neruda poetry found by archivists is about to be published. [via Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the

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  21. Colored sketch of a Discodoris boholiensis, which looks like a sea slug.

    Link Love: 10/30/2020

    • Date: October 30, 2020
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly 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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    Here's Looking at You, Closer . . . Photography and Radiology

    • Date: April 10, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="251" caption="Photo of William F. Mack, Roentgenologist, by Margrethe Mather, 1922, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Division of Information Technology and Communications"][/caption] Just how closely do radiologists look at what they’re supposed to be analyzing? Would knowing whose CT scans they were studying make

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