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  1. Black-and-white close-up photograph of Elizabeth Broun.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elizabeth Broun

    • Date: December 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Dr. Elizabeth Broun, Director, Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, 1989–2016, oversaw major renovations, welcomed groundbreaking exhibitions, and diversified the museum’s collections. She served as the museum’s Chief Curator and Assistant Director, 1983–88. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Ellen speaks to visitors on a tour of collections in the Natural History Museum Building. She is holder up documents from a folder.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers

    • Date: April 7, 2021
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • 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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  5. Leech jars, as seen at the New York Academy of Medicine. Courtesy of Nora Lockshin. (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

    Leeches ’n Labels

    • Date: October 29, 2015
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Terrifying tips for marking on museum objects lurks within our annual Halloween themed post.

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  7. Inappropriate Attachments: When Good Intentions Go Bad! (Gallery of Horrors Part II)

    • Date: November 28, 2012
    • Creator: Janelle Batkin-Hall
    • Description: A highlight of inappropriate paper attachments found in a Smithsonian Institution Archives collection.

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  9. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

    Link Love: 4/13/2018

    • Date: April 13, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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  11. Link Love: 8/2/2019

    • Date: August 2, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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  13. Polar Bear at the National Zoo, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no, 2002-10612.

    Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo

    • Date: May 27, 2014
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: A number of animals who used to call the National Zoological Park home are no longer there.

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  15. Fish Specimens in Jars at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC)

    Sneak Peek 2/25/2019

    • Date: February 25, 2019
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Fish specimens in jars at the Smithsonian Oceanographic Sorting Center (SOSC), June 6, 1979, by Richard Hofmeister, SIA RU000371, 79-7303-16A.

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  17. Portrait of woman smiling with graphic in blue with white text.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Dolores Piperno

    • Date: March 14, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Archaeologist & curator emerita, Dr. Dolores Piperno, Smithsonian Tropical Research Center, greatly expanded the knowledge of pre-Columbian cultures and was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2005. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Color portrait of woman smiling with head in hand.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret Geller

    • Date: March 28, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Astrophysicist Dr. Margaret J. Geller, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is a pioneer in mapping the nearby universe who provided a new view of the enormous patterns in the distribution of galaxies like the Milky Way. #Groundbreaker

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  21. Aerial View of National Mall, 1900s

    Sneak Peek 9/3/2018

    • Date: September 3, 2018
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Aerial view of National Mall from Washington Monument looking towards U.S. Capitol building, with Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station and Center Market in view, circa early 1900s, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-43753A.

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  23. A person stands at a podium. They are looking down toward the microphone.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Sharon Reinckens

    • Date: September 4, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Sharon Reinckens, Deputy Director, Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, has served as Acting Director, Senior Designer, and Supervisory Visual Information Specialist at the museum, 1980–present. Reinckens also produced award-winning documentaries about African American artists in Washington D.C for the museum. #Groundbreaker

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