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  1. Wishing you a Trivial New Year!

    • Date: January 4, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Happy National Trivia Day! January 4th is the perfect day to break out all those endless bits of knowledge stored in your noggin and share them with others. As for the history of National Trivia Day, it's thought that the creation of the game Trivial Pursuit in 1979 sparked the beginning of our fascination with trivia, and everythinge else is history, as they say. To feed our

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    The Enid A. Haupt Garden

    • Date: January 20, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A look at the Enid A. Haupt Garden as it was established in 1987.

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    Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

    • Date: August 3, 2017
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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    Wartime in Washington—Mary Henry on the First Manassas

    • Date: July 21, 2011
    • Description: Throughout the next months, the Smithsonian Institution Archives will feature posts related to the Smithsonian and the Civil War in honor of the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War. On July 21, 1861, the First Battle of Manassas raged just thirty miles southwest of Washington DC and the Smithsonian Institution Building that housed Secretary Joseph Henry and his family.

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  9. Smithsonian Torch article about the formation of the SI Lesbian and Gay Issues Committee, March 1992. Len Hirsch is pictured, right.

    Smithsonian GLOBE: A History

    • Date: June 6, 2017
    • Description: In celebration of Pride 2017, a look back at the history of the Smithsonian GLOBE (Gay Lesbian and Bisexual Employees) organization.

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    An Intern’s Perspective on Preserving Scrapbooks and Conserving Blueprints

    • Date: August 30, 2018
    • Description: Preservation intern discusses working with oversize materials in the Archives collection, including information on the creation of custom enclosures, surface cleaning of blueprints, and humidification.

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  13. Making sphagnum moss surgical dressings at one of the branch stations of the American Red Cross, Southsea, England, 1918.

    Fostering Collaboration for the Public Good: Sphagnum Moss and WWI

    • Date: May 23, 2017
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: A look at one of the many ways the Smithsonian’s mission to increase and diffuse knowledge brought scientific knowledge to aid the public good.

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  15. As one of the Smithsonian's 1st female managers, Helena Weiss was responsible for the central filing system of public mail, accession reports, loans and exchanges, shipping, foreign travel, customs regulations, insurance, and workman's compensation.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helena Weiss

    • Date: April 27, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: As one of the Smithsonian's 1st female managers, Helena Weiss was responsible for the central filing system of public mail, accession reports, loans and exchanges, shipping, foreign travel, customs regulations, insurance, and workman's compensation.

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  17. Portrait of Mara Mayor.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Mara Mayor

    • Date: November 10, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    We've Got Mail?

    • Date: January 11, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Right after Thanksgiving, on a promotional tour stop for his post-presidential memoir, Decision Points, George W. Bush visited Palo Alto, California to chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. According to a CBS News report, Mr. Bush mentioned that while he has more than 600,000 Facebook "friends," and now uses a Blackberry and iPad, during his presidency, he didn’t make much

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  21. Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life

    • Date: May 28, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.

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  23. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Jacqueline Hicks Grazette

    • Date: June 24, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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