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  1. Astronaut and earth scientist, Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, was the 1st female American astronaut to spacewalk, and was named the 2017 Charles A. Lindbergh Chair of Aerospace History, Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Dorn

    • Date: October 4, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Ellen Dorn (right), former Director of Exhibitions at the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building, worked on several large scale traveling exhibits including “America’s Smithsonian,” for the Smithsonian's 150th and "Smithsonian's America" which traveled to Japan. #Groundbreaker

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  3. O’Sullivan’s West and More

    • Date: February 26, 2010
    • Description: Framing the West is a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It features 120 of the extraordinary photographs Timothy O’Sullivan made for the King and Wheeler Surveys, two of the most important geological surveys of the western United States. The exhibition demonstrates not only the ability of the camera to capture the details of place, but the talent of

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    Photography's Colorful Past

    • Date: January 14, 2010
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_4168" align="aligncenter" width="261" caption="Albumen portrait of the Reverend Levi L. Hill, Baptist minister and early daguerreotypist, West Kill, New York and New York City, b. 1816-d. February 9, 1865. Inscription on reverse, “Levi L. Hill, Died February 9, 1865, He is Asleep in Heaven.”"][/caption] Just when we think that we must have at last

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    Smithsonian's Photo Summit

    • Date: October 12, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Installation View of Smithsonian Photography Exhibition Art Section, by Thomas Smillie, c.

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    William Stimpson and the Smithsonian’s First Aquarium

    • Date: July 14, 2015
    • Description: William Stimpson and the first aquarium at the Smithsonian Institution.

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    See Here: 12/28/2009

    • Date: December 28, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: A daily photo highlight from Smithsonian collections. [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="432" caption="Opening night visitors view a parade of recent fashions in the "Suiting Everyone" exhibit at the National Museum of History and Technology, now the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 1974, by Alfred Harrell, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    Hunting for Elephants in Archives

    • Date: February 17, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: I was intrigued to receive a tweet from a digital colleague over at the NY Times pertaining to a family story that could very well be solved at the Archives. I’m continuously surprised at the variety of papers we hold here, but by now, I shouldn’t be given how far-reaching and varied the scope of the Smithsonian has been through history. Back to the story. THE elephant that

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    Digital Humanists Dive Into Archives

    • Date: August 3, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Bloggers on The Bigger Picture often describe how, in the course of their work, they come across intriguing archival objects and artifacts that trigger new insights into history. “Hands on” encounters with compelling evidence from the past are thrilling and can be provocative. But so can different sorts of encounters, including those that are driven by data, rather than

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  17. Moonwatch volunteers tracking satellites, 1965, in Pretoria, South Africa for the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Moonwatch Network, one of more than 100 teams worldwide.

    Thank you, Volunteers!

    • Date: April 23, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Volunteers have been an integral part of the Smithsonian since the beginning. As our historian Pamela Henson likes to say, we have always relied on the kindness of strangers. A blog post in honor of Volunteer Appreciation Month 2015. Includes a list of Smithsonian crowdsourcing projects that volunteers can participate in.

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    See Here: 11/26/2009

    • Date: November 26, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="408" caption="Roof of the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History) and Buildings of the City of Washington, D.C., c. 1920s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 562, Box 1, Negative Number:2003-19563. "][/caption]

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    See Here: 3/14/2011

    • Date: March 14, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="407" caption="On the National Mall In front of the National Museum of Natural History, school children sit on the grass having their lunch, 1950, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 95 Box 28 Folder 44, Negative Number: SIA2009-2125."][/caption]

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    See Here: 9/3/2010

    • Date: September 3, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="302" caption="Fausto Bocanegra, assistant to director Martin H. Moynihan, on Barro Colorado Island, the research station for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, is standing in front of the dining hall, c. 1960s, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, IHD Photos, Negative

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