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  1. A woman smiles directly at the camera. Her hair is in a bun and she is wearing blue earrings and a necklace.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Claudine K. Brown

    • Date: February 27, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Claudine K. Brown began her long career with Smithsonian as the Director of the African American History Project, 1990–1995, developing a program plan for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Brown also served as Smithsonian’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities, 1991-1995. She returned to the Smithsonian in 2010 as Assistant

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  3. A woman sits at a desk and poses for a close-up. The desk has folder holders for papers and small objects, like a statue and two model boats.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jane Rosen Glaser

    • Date: April 17, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Jane Rosen Glaser was Director of the Office of Museum Programs (1976–89), Special Assistant in the offices of the Assistant Secretary for the Arts and Humanities (1989-94), Assistant Provost (1994-96), and Provost (1996). During her long career with Smithsonian, Glaser organized seminars and conferences for museum professionals and published numerous books and articles about

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  5. Portrait of Freida Austin from The Prophet.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Freida Austin Johnson

    • Date: February 3, 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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    Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

    • Date: July 5, 2018
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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  9. Contact sheet of people at Louise M. Pearson’s retirement party. She is pictured with Smithsonian Secretary Charles G. Abbot. Pearson is being handed various gifts. A large crowd is gathered.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Louise M. Pearson

    • Date: April 20, 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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    Growing a National Museum – the Curators’ Annual Reports

    • Date: May 19, 2016
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The United States National Museum Curators’ Annual Reports will be added to the Smithsonian Transcription Center, beginning the first week of June.

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  13. The ceremonial key received by Secretary Skorton.

    Welcome Secretary Skorton!

    • Date: October 20, 2015
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution welcomes it’s thirteenth Secretary, David J. Skorton with an installation ceremony.

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    Another Wonderful Winter of Wetmore

    • Date: January 12, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: On this day, 72 years ago, ornithologist Alexander Wetmore became Smithsonian Secretary--continuing his life-long dedication to field research! Help transcribe Wetmore’s extensive research and make it available for a new generation of field scientists.

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  17. Letter from Mabel Truss Metcalf to Marguerite Henrich Kellogg, October 14, 1923, page 1.

    A Glimpse of 1920s China from the Remington Kellogg Papers

    • Date: February 19, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: With Chinese New Year upon us, the beautiful stationery these letters are written on gives a glimpse into life for academic expatriates in southern China in the 1920s.

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  19. Edinburgh Airport, Scotland, United Kingdom, by Carolyn Russo, National Air and Space Museum, Image ID# WEB14831-2015.

    Link Love: 12/10/15

    • Date: December 11, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A new exhibit and publication from the National Air and Space Museum looks at the architectural beauty of airport towers with photos by Carolyn Russo. [via Weather.com]“The government must take the lead in reinvesting in the arts and humanities,” according to Smithsonian Secretary David Skorton. [via Washington Post]The Smithsonian made a 3D scan of Apollo 11 from the National

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Alice Green Burnette

    • Date: July 17, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Alice Green Burnette, Assistant Secretary for Institutional Initiatives, 1989–96, managed the $200 million campaign to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington and led marketing efforts for Smithsonian’s 150th anniversary programming. She initially arrived in 1988 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Coordinator of Institutional

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  23. Close-up photograph of Claudine K. Brown.

    Remembering the Work of Claudine K. Brown

    • Date: March 23, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.

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