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  1. Tweet sent by Jacob Harris, 11/12/2014.

    How Uncle Maurice Saved the Smithsonian Elephant

    • Date: January 6, 2015
    • Description: There's no doubt that Washington, D.C. is a great place to raise kids. And one of the primary reasons why is the wide array of Smithsonian museums that are only a subway ride away. It's no wonder that regular visits to the National Mall have been an important part of our family's culture and history since the early 1970's. And part of that history has been the story of "how

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    The Family of Man, as Told by the Family of Man

    • Date: September 20, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Periodically—given the fleeting nature of life and the ubiquity of photographic imagery—it’s seems like someone’s always trying to hatch another ambitious image-based cultural project to prove that, despite our differences, we’re pretty all much the same.

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  5. A Window into the Grand Tour: Traveling in the Style of James Smithson

    • Date: December 4, 2012
    • Description: A new exhibition offers a chance to explore the world of Grand Tour travel in the late eighteenth century, similar to that experienced by the Smithsonian’s own founding donor, James Smithson.

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  7. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

    Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

    • Date: August 2, 2018
    • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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  9. Off with their Heads?: Matchbooks in Archives

    • Date: May 2, 2013
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: The conservator considers potential damage to and from matchbooks in collections.

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  11. Secretary G. Wayne Clough and Smithsonian Historian, Pam Henson, 12/4/2014

    And the award goes to...

    • Date: December 30, 2014
    • Creator: Anne Van Camp
    • Description: The Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service was created in 1964 and is the highest honor given to Smithsonian staff for exceptional service over a long period of time. On December 4, 2014, Secretary G. Wayne Clough presented this award to Pam Henson for a lifetime of exceptional service to the Smithsonian Institution. She began her career here in 1973 and has been in

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    The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 7, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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  15. Flyer with a sketch of a Kwanzaa table, a list of symbols, and a list of the seven principles.

    Celebrating Kwanzaa at the Anacostia Community Museum

    • Date: December 5, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: One of the ways the Anacostia Community Museum has served its community is through celebrations and educational programming about Kwanzaa.

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  17. Protection of Collections during Retrofit or Renovation

    • Date: May 2, 2019
    • Creator: Nora Lockshin
    • Description: Yesterday, we celebrated MayDay2019 by reviewing the contents of Nora’s PRICE team go-bag, which you can explore in this Facebook Live, courtesy of the Foundation for the Advancement of Conservation!This MayDay post comes to you at a time when cultural heritage disasters on a mass scale are fresh in people’s minds. Paying attention to high visibility events offers opportunity

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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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  21. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

    Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

    • Date: October 24, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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    Publicity, Politics, and Physics

    • Date: March 10, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Long ago and far away, before gray hairs and creaky knees, before history became my passion, I was an undergraduate physics major.  Physics seemed fascinating and beautiful, if difficult.  Later, after career paths led into history and science policy, I learned that physics, however elegant, did not reside in a cultural vacuum.  Its people and discoveries coexisted with

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