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  1. An attendee at “Don’t Rock the Cradle” examines magnetic strapping in the marketplace. Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015.

    Preserve It While You Use It: Collections Care in Action

    • Date: April 28, 2015
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: It’s Preservation Week - see what conservation staff at the Smithsonian Institution Archives are doing to contribute to preservation-mindedness.

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  3. Side-by-side of damaged papers, with folds and tears, and recently treated papers in good conditions.

    Decision-making and Digitization: Triaging Mass Treatment Options

    • Date: February 18, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Choosing the right treatment method can be a challenge—especially when mass interventions are needed on a tight deadline.

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  5. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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  7. A 2002 press release about an exhibition at the National Museum at Natural History. It was written and saved as a Microsoft Word document.

    Word-processing files need love, too

    • Date: December 31, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.

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  9. Letter - Mary Agnes Chase to Albert Spear Hitchcock, July 5, 1935.

    The Other Side of Mary Agnes Chase

    • Date: March 19, 2015
    • Description: Mary Agnes Chase is known for her extensive contributions to the study of grasses, but who was Mary Agnes Chase? Why is her private life so shrouded in mystery, and how can we find out more.

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    Adventures of an Ecologist

    • Date: January 7, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A Flickr Set from the field work of Helmut Buechner.

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  13. From Plantations to Islands of Science: Travels in Costa Rica and Panama - Part II

    • Date: January 31, 2013
    • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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    Science Service, Up Close: Stuff Matters

    • Date: September 3, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Science Service photographs, while having good identifying information, can still be helped by the cybercommunity to fill in some of the mission information.

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    Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment

    • Date: May 3, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.

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  19. No. 40. Crew member preparing plant specimens for Smithsonian, off the east coast of Greenland, 1936. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 007231, Image no. SIA2012-0660

    Another Milestone Met: Reminiscing about the Field Book Project and Looking Forward

    • Date: February 21, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The intense efforts that started the Field Book Project and have kept it in high gear are slowing down to a sustainable pace. After almost ten years, grant funding for the Field Book Project has drawn to a close, but there is still plenty more to look forward to that will benefit researchers for years to come.

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  21. Tweets between @Smithsonian and @PennamitePLR

    Audiences Solving Mysteries of Women in Science

    • Date: December 3, 2013
    • Description: Recent discoveries about our Women in Science demonstrate the ways our audiences are helping us add more stories to our collections.

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  23. Black and white photograph of a woman speaking to a group of children. Some children are holding books. Both the woman and the children are seated.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amina Dickerson

    • Date: October 24, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Amina Dickerson, Director of Education at the National Museum of African Art, 1974 to 1982, established African Heritage Month at the Smithsonian and led work to make the museum educational programs more accessible. #Groundbreaker

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