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    American History in an Earthenware Teacup

    • Date: January 14, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: C. Malcolm Watkins (1911-2001), curator of cultural history at the National Museum of American History, was a pioneer of material culture studies and historic archeology.

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  3. An x-ray of Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara (Guanyin) in the guise of a Buddha reveals three wood support screws. F1957.25. Courtesy of the Freer and Sackler Galleries.

    Link Love: 10/25/2013

    • Date: October 25, 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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    Link Love: 6/11/2010

    • Date: June 11, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  7. A woman leans next to a display of pottery.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Magda J. Schremp

    • Date: May 20, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Magda J. Schremp, Docent Program Coordinator, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 1971–2007, led a team of volunteers, who were responsible for assisting with school programs, leading hands-on activities and programs, and guiding the visitors’ experiences as tour guides. #Groundbreaker

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  9. 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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  11. Freeze Frame (Freeze Frame)!

    • Date: May 12, 2022
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: At the Archives we get to see hundreds and hundreds (technically ~3 million if we wanted) images and photographs. We sometimes lose focus (ahh, get it) of all the amazing people behind the lens.National Photograph Month at the Archives

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    Formidable: Women in Science

    • Date: March 8, 2009
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the first in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month. Formidable (adj). Having qualities that discourage attack; tending to inspire awe or wonder. What a word!

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  15. Enola Gay, by Dane Penland, National Air and Space Museum

    Recent Acquisition - Records from Martin Harwit, Director, NASM, 1986-1995

    • Date: April 24, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Looking at a recently acquired collection records created and maintained by former National Air and Space Museum director, Martin Harwit, that relate to the Enola Gay, its exhibition, and the controversy that ensued.

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  17. Archibald Wenley in China.

    “A Very Fine and Unusual Statue”: Fruits of the Freer Gallery Field Expeditions in China

    • Date: May 5, 2016
    • Description: Carl Whiting Bishop’s expedition to China for the Freer Gallery of Art and the Cosmic Buddha.

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    In Living Color

    • Date: January 12, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4178" align="alignleft" width="206" caption="Levi Hill often photographed color lithographic prints, mostly European images, when attempting to perfect his Hillotype color process. This print of a girl and small animal shows his achievement in capturing natural colors on a daguerreotype plate, circa 1851-56."][/caption] Excepting the 8% of males and

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    Freaks and Geeks

    • Date: May 12, 2010
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: In the Smithsonian Institution Archives, we each have our favorite stories that are told through materials in our collections. Several times a year we might give "treasures shows" for interns or special visitors, and we pluck items that highlight moments and people in the Institution's history. We pull out a draft of James Smithson's will, letters from the Wright brothers,

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    Link Love: 12/3/2010

    • Date: December 3, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="311" caption="IC 4970 and NGC 6872: Galaxy Collision Switches on Black Hole, X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/M.Machacek; Optical: ESO/VLT; Infrared: NASA/JPL/Caltech."][/caption] I’m sure you’re familiar with beauties, like the one above, from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Well, apparently, with “a basic understanding of astronomy data & image

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