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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elisabeth Gantt

    • Date: September 27, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Molecular geneticist and distinguished professor, Dr. Elisabeth Gannt, was a research associate at the Smithsonian's Radiation Biology Laboratory where she studied algae photosynthesis, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 when only 5 percent of the members were women. #Groundbreaker

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    See Here: 6/17/2010

    • Date: June 17, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="Secretary S. Dillon Ripley (1964-1984) shows the Beatles' Rolls-Royce to Caron Carter, 11 July 1978, by Richard K. Hofmeister, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder August 1978, Negative Number: 94-8341."][/caption]

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  5. Mineralogists Eugene Jarosewich, Chemist, and Roy S. Clarke, Jr., Associate Curator, examine samples from a Mexican meteorite shower for the Center for Short-Lived Phenomena, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Record Unit 371, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 94-1533.

    Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe

    • Date: October 28, 2014
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.

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  7. Brigadier General Adolphus Washington Greely

    Miscellaneous Adventures in Ballooning

    • Date: August 2, 2016
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures finds photos of war balloons used by the US Army Signal Corps.

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    See Here: 8/31/2010

    • Date: August 31, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Fourth Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1907-1927) Charles D. Walcott at camp in the field with four unidentified men, One man is sharpening an ax blade, The other three men are in the process of skinning some small animals, either beavers or woodchucks, Date unknown, some time in the 1910s or 1920s, by

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amanda Young

    • Date: September 20, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Spacesuit Curator, Amanda Young, started at the National Air and Space Museum as a secretary and moved her way up to being in charge of conserving the museum's more than 200 spacesuits. #Groundbreaker

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    See Here: 4/27/2010

    • Date: April 27, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot (Secretary, 1928-1944) and two unidentified persons viewing site for Table Mountain Observatory in California, The Table Mountain Observatory was closed in 1961, c. 1925, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7005 Box 187 Folder 7, Negative

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    A very jolly day...

    • Date: December 23, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) family at "Olmsted," Provo, Utah, c. 1907, by Unidentified photographer, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Science Service Records, 1902-1965 (Record Unit 7091), Image ID: SIA2009-0983."][/caption] Alright, I admit it. I often write about the Walcott family and why not?

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  17. Portrait of woman in glasses with head turned to the side.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Massumeh Farhad

    • Date: October 25, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer and Sackler Galleries, has created numerous exhibitions on the arts of the Islamic world, and twice received the Smithsonian Secretary's prestigious research prize. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Constance Berry Newman

    • Date: June 7, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Former Under Secretary of the Smithsonian (1992-2000), Constance Berry Newman, also served 7 Presidential appointments in the U.S. federal government, 5 of which required Senate confirmations. #Groundbreaker

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    Office of Public Affairs Photographic Collection

    • Date: September 19, 2013
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Highlighting the photographic holdings at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Karen Y. Lemmey

    • Date: December 6, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Dr. Karen Y. Lemmey is the Smithsonian American Art Museum's curator of sculpture, the largest collection of American sculpture in the world, and won a 2017 Secretary's Research Prize.

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