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      The Legacy of I. Michael Heyman

      • Date: December 7, 2011
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: A discussion of the legacy of I. Michael Heyman, who served as the eleventh Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1994 to 1999.

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    3. Lonnie G. Bunch III stands in an office in front of a cluttered bookshelf.

      Goodbye, 2019. Hello, 2020!

      • Date: December 31, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2020, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2019.

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    5. William Zeckendorf sits behind desk in his

      The Failed Zeckendorf Plan

      • Date: November 19, 2013
      • Description: During planning of the future National Museum of American History, Webb and Knapp attempted to move it off the Mall into Southwest Washington.

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    7. Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

      Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

      • Date: January 7, 2020
      • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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    9. Portrait of Marine biologist, Dr. Nancy Knowlton

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy Knowlton

      • Date: December 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of Dr. Knowlton winning the Smithsonian Secretary's Distinguished Scholar Award. Marine biologist, Dr. Nancy Knowlton, National Museum of Natural History, uses advanced molecular methods combined with globally standardized sampling to explore the hidden diversity that has been ignored by traditional approaches, a key component of the Smithsonian’s MarineGeo program.

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    11. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

      The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

      • Date: June 8, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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    13. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    15. Smithsonian Gardens' Cindy Brown in front of the gardenias at the Enid A. Haupt Garden.

      Link Love: 6/16/2017

      • Date: June 16, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and Washington D.C & American history.

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    17. 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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    19. Home Page of the First Smithsonian Website, Accession 98-094: Office of the Secretary, Smithsonian Website Records, 1995, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2012-0382.

      The Electronic Smithsonian

      • Date: May 7, 2015
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A look back at the first Smithsonian home page, launched 20 years ago.

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      The Saint Augustine Monster

      • Date: August 18, 2010
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: What was the Saint Augustine Monster? According to Wikipedia, it was a globster—“an unidentified organic mass that washes up on the shoreline of an ocean or other body of water.” This great-grandaddy of globsters kept cryptozoologists speculating and scientists testing for a century—and a piece of it lives at the Smithsonian. The St. Augustine monster was discovered by two

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    23. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

      Hearing the Unheard: the Smithsonian and the Riots of 1968

      • Date: September 20, 2016
      • Description: The riots following King’s assassination in 1968 transformed Smithsonian’s relationship to black history and culture.

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