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      William Stimpson and the Golden Age of American Natural History

      • Date: July 17, 2018
      • Description: Ron Vasile teaches AP U.S. History, U.S. History and Anthropology at Lockport Township High School in Lockport, Illinois.We bring to you the story of a dedicated naturalist turned museum pioneer.

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    3. Five images in a contact sheet of a woman being surprised by a group waiting in a room. It appears that she has been gifted a portrait of a man.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ann S. Campbell

      • Date: March 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Ann S. Campbell was one of the first women managers at the Smithsonian. Between 1968 and 1980, she directed the Management Analysis Office, responsible for surveying the Institution’s offices on their objectives, staffing, and function and developing any necessary operational changes. Under Campbell, the office was also tasked with issuing Smithsonian directives, including

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      Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

      • Date: February 1, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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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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      To Market, To Market

      • Date: August 14, 2009
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_1885" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="U.S. National Museum, Street vendors at Center Market, by unknown photographer, 10/16/1909, Smithsonian Institution Archives RU79 Assistant Secretary in charge of the United States National Museum, SIA2009-1992."][/caption] Interns and staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are digitizing historic

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    11. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

      • Date: September 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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    13. 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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    15. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

      “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

      • Date: March 13, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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    17. A group portrait of the members of the 1975 Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council.

      Women Carrying out the Work of Change in the 1970s

      • Date: January 5, 2021
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.

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    19. Detail of severe ink corrosion on RU 53, vol.32, p. 369, 09/23/2015. Courtesy of Laura Dellapiana

      Further Research in the Conservation and Preservation of Letterpress Copybooks

      • Date: January 26, 2016
      • Description: Postgraduate Fellow Laura Dellapiana presents new research outcomes for stabilization of letterpress copybooks with significant damage.

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    21. The Normal Rock Creek by William H. Holmes

      William Henry Holmes

      • Date: November 29, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The multi-talented William Henry Holmes contributed to the Smithsonian as an artist, explorer, geologist, archeologist and museum director.

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    23. They say it's your birthday...We're gonna have a good time!

      • Date: August 9, 2018
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Tomorrow is the Smithsonian’s 172nd birthday! So, let’s celebrate with cake through the ages.[view:sia_slideshow==84135]Related ResourcesJames Smithson: Founder of the Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution Archives17 Objects for 170 Years (Happy Birthday to us!), The Bigger Picture, Smithsonian Institution ArchivesLooking Smithson’s Gift Horse in the Mouth, The

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