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  1. Museum Specialist Sheila Alexander at Work in NMHT

    Sneak Peek 1/9/2017

    • Date: January 9, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Museum specialist Sheila Alexander at work in the Division of Ceramics and Glass, 71-7-1-24A.

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  3. Laboratory of the Division of Radiation and Organisms

    Sneak Peek 10/2/2017

    • Date: October 2, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Universal quartz spectrograph used in radiation researches in the laboratory of the Division of Radiation and Organisms, MNH-11036C.

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    Archives Puzzles: Smithsonian’s First Paid Employee

    • Date: August 9, 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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  7. Janet Harmon Bragg: Female Aviator

    • Date: March 22, 2011
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: For the month of March, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will be posting about interesting women from our collections in honor of Women’s History Month. Over the past two years, I have had the privilege of watching the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ Video History Collection interviews while they were digitized. One of my favorites is Black Aviators (RU 9545) because of

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    Women's History Month on the Flickr Commons: A Final Batch

    • Date: March 23, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: We've just added a final batch of photographs to our "Science Service" set on the Flickr Commons in honor of Women's History Month, and there are some interesting new ladies there. You might assume that since the images are from Science Service, they would only feature scientists. However, Science Service, a news service designed to popularize science and to disseminate

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  11. A man sits at a desk on which large bones sit. An animal skeleton is hanging on the wall.

    The Mammoth Task of Creating a Fossil Hall at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 6, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Before you head to “Deep Time,” opening this weekend at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, learn about how Smithsonian’s fossil collection was initially formed and exhibited.

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  13. Photographer Michael Barnes and his copy stand setup.

    Rapid Capture Digitization to bring the Smithsonian's Board of Regents Minutes Online

    • Date: September 8, 2015
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: Digitizing the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents minutes to make them available online.

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    Unity for International Migratory Bird Day

    • Date: May 10, 2018
    • Creator: Matt Peterson
    • Description: The theme of this year’s International Migratory Bird Day is unity. The Smithsonian has a longstanding history of commitment to the natural world. No figure in the Institution’s history better exemplifies the theme of unity surrounding migratory species than sixth Smithsonian Secretary and ornithologist Alexander Wetmore. He knew the importance of the role that birds play in

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    Link Love: 2/25/2011

    • Date: February 25, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  19. Free NASA Posters, image courtesy NASA/JPL.

    Link Love: 02/19/2016

    • Date: February 19, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Don't miss out on getting your copy of these beautiful NASA space travel posters. [via The Drive]GPS art by bicycle. [via bored panda]448 free art books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [via Open Culture]Learn how to archive institutional email from two of our own. [via Library of Congress]A new 3D scan of Apollo 11 reveals astronaut graffiti depicting flight plans, a

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  21. Portrait of Amy Ballard.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Ballard

    • Date: August 25, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Amy Ballard is a senior historic preservation specialist emerita with the Smithsonian’s Architectural History and Historic Preservation Office, where she worked between 1985 until her retirement in 2016. She was promoted to senior historic preservation specialist in 2010. Ballard has contributed to plans for new buildings, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the

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  23. People standing around quilt panel with a design of the Smithsonian Castle on the upper half and small quilt panels and people’s names on the lower half.

    The AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall

    • Date: December 17, 2020
    • Description: The AIDS Memorial Quilt has a long history with the National Mall and the Smithsonian Institution starting with its first appearance on the Mall in 1987.

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