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  1. 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States

    Reconstructing William Temple Hornaday’s 1888 Extermination Series

    • Date: March 2, 2017
    • Description: A look at taxidermist turned conservationist William Temple Hornaday's "Extermination Series" highlighting the environmental impact of man on North American mammals.

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  3. Graphic with black & white photo of Malone alongside text description of her achievements in African American hair products.

    Link Love: 3/24/2017

    • Date: March 24, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Meet the women behind African American hair care! [via #HiddenHerstory]MIT Libraries is kicking off the "Women in Science and Engineering@MIT" archival initiative to improve the representation of women in their archives. [via MIT Libraries]Know someone with cognitive and sensory processing disabilities? Tell them about Morning at the Museum, a program that provides early

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    Women in Science Wednesday: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod

    • Date: August 7, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  7. Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen (b. 1918, shown left) became the first person to receive the new Doctor of Odontology degree from the University of Copenhagen, in 1946.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Bodil Mimi Krogh Schmidt-Nielsen

    • Date: March 26, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  9. Marie Agnes Hinrichs (b. 1892) Ph.D. and M.D.

    Women in Science Wednesday: Marie Agnes Hinrichs, Ph.D. and M.D.

    • Date: July 31, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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  11. Microbiologist Elizabeth Lee Hazen and chemist Rachel Brown

    Women in Science Wednesday: Elizabeth Lee Hazen and Rachel Brown

    • Date: July 10, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis

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    From the Science Service Collection: Dr. John Thomas, Jr.

    • Date: February 22, 2018
    • Creator: Matt Peterson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_392292,size=800,center]Dr. John Thomas, Jr., M.D. was a renowned clinician, epidemiologist, and research scholar who taught at Meharry Medical College for more than half century. When this photograph was made, he had just been appointed Research Collaborator at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he was engaged in a study of the precursors of

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    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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  17. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

    Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

    • Date: March 6, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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  19. The Life Behind the Photograph

    • Date: March 28, 2013
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Thanks to the Flickr community, the Smithsonian Archives knows the context for a photograph of Norwegian biologist Kristin Bonnevie.

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    Hindsight is 20/20: Revisiting Paper Treatments From Twenty Years Ago

    • Date: April 28, 2011
    • Description: This post is written in honor of Preservation Week, April 24–30, 2011. In celebration of this week, preservation specialists around the world will bring attention to the preservation work going on in their institutions, and inspire action to preserve collections in libraries, archives, museums, and communities. [caption id="attachment_12654" align="aligncenter" width="432"

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  23. Science Service biology editor Frank Thone (1891-1949), mid-1940s, by Fremont Davis. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. SIA2009-4197.

    Science Service, Up Close: Laughing All the Way

    • Date: April 1, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Humor and its manifestation at Science Service.

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