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  1. 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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  3. Portrait of Cynthia Chavez Lamar. Her hair is shoulder-length and she had bangs. Her top is black and gray. Her arms are crossed and she is smiling toward the camera. She is wearing a silver necklace with a turquoise stone at the center.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar

    • Date: January 26, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Last week, Dr. Cynthia Chavez Lamar was named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Chavez Lamar has worked at the Museum throughout her career, from an internship in 1994 to her current role as acting associate director for collections and operations. Between 2000 and 2005, she was an associate curator, leading the work on “Our Lives,” one of

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  5. Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: December 8, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  7. 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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    See Here: 5/25/2010

    • Date: May 25, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="419" caption="An exhibit of rocks and minerals in the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, The exhibit includes Balls of Brecciated Marble from Japan in the middle case and other samples of rocks and minerals in the other cases next to it, 1900s, by Unknown photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian

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  11. Two exhibit cases on either side of a tall panel that reads: In tribute...Spencer Fullerton Baird 1823-87 Secretary, Smithsonian Institution 1878-87.

    Archives Puzzles: Exhibiting Baird

    • Date: May 17, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  13. A man stands and leans next to a painting. Another man holds a camera to his eye and points the camera at the leaning man.

    Tips and Lessons from the Opening of the Renwick Gallery

    • Date: June 11, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In the midst of Smithsonian's busy season, we’re providing tips for visitors through the lens of photographs from the opening of the Renwick Gallery in 1972.

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  15. Two sketches of a bird's head attached to a beige paper. The larger sketch is in color and the smaller sketch is in black and white.

    Link Love: 3/15/2019

    • Date: March 15, 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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  17. Museum window covered in red polka dots of varying sizes with man walking by.

    Link Love: 2/24/2017

    • Date: February 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Hirshhorn and neighboring areas are enveloped in polka dots, and we love it. [via Washington Post]A new African American history treasure trove; digitized post-Civil War 'wanted ads' searching for love ones separated by slavery. [via NPR]11 African American inventors (including the Smithsonian's own Regent, Dr. Shirley Jackson) who changed the world. [via Mental Floss]The

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  19. Press Preview invitation for the exhibition,

    Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice

    • Date: May 14, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."

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  21. Blog Post

    The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers

    • Date: April 25, 2019
    • Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.

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  23. Plexus Installation, by Gabriel Dawe

    Link Love: 11/25/2016

    • Date: November 25, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Thankful edition!Artist Gabriel Dawe makes rainbows. [via Bored Panda]Our Arts & Industries building, the 1st U.S. National Museum, amazes many who visit the National Mall. Learn more about it!Some key things you should know about American Indians from the director of our National Museum of the American Indian. [via Washington Post]Colombian singer Carlos Vives is donating one

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