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  1. Black and white image of man standing on boat with ocean in the background.

    Can We Keep to a Schedule, Please?

    • Date: October 12, 2017
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: The Smithsonian’s scientists and naturalists were, and still are, constantly on the move. When they weren’t in the field, they were in the museum studying collected specimens, writing papers, and getting ready for the next series of trips. Dr. Waldo LaSalle Schmitt (1887-1977) was no exception.Logistics is a special skill, an essential one when traveling on scientific

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    The Challenge of Preserving Digital Architectural Drawings

    • Date: July 27, 2010
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7461" align="aligncenter" width="369" caption="Construction of the National Museum of the American Indian, July 2003, digital photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 06-012, Box 24, Folder NMAI Construction-July 2003, Folder CD_1, # U.jpg."] [/caption] At the Archives, we’ve recently begun working with some digital files of architectural

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  5. Colorful painting of African American woman in red dress.

    Link Love: 5/18/2018

    • Date: May 18, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery and National Museum of African American History and Culture acquired a portrait of Henrietta Lacks, the African American woman whose cells were unknowingly contributed to over 10,000 medical patents, aiding research and benefiting patients with polio, AIDS, Parkinson’s disease and other conditions. [via Smithsonian

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    Link Love: 8/23/2013

    • Date: August 23, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    Meet Sarah Stierch: The Archives’ Wikipedian in Residence

    • Date: March 28, 2012
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives hosts Sarah Stierch as Wikipedian-in-Residence for Spring 2012.

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  11. Storefront at Norrmalmstorg in Stockholm 1957, by Gunnar Ekelund, Photo Nr: 2017

    Link Love: 10/14/2011

    • Date: October 14, 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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  13. Ruby slippers, ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

    Link Love: 10/21/2016

    • Date: October 21, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History needs your help to preserve Dorothy's ruby red slippers. [via Washington Post]The gravedigger from Hamlet, Malvolio from Twelfth Night, and more Shakespeare-inspired Halloween costumes! [via Folger Shakespeare Library]IBM's Watson Supercomputer + Encyclopedia of Life= Biodiversity Treasure Trove Unlocked! [via Smithsonian

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    See Here: 11/30/2009

    • Date: November 30, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Tom Selleck at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, 1988, by David Muntz, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 5, Negative Number:88-12620-16."][/caption]

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  17. Harry Houdini, c. 1920, by Unidentified photographer, National Portrait Gallery,

    Houdini Escapes the Smithsonian

    • Date: December 26, 2011
    • Description: Harry Houdini visits Aleš Hrdlička at the National Museum to get measured and declines giving his remains to the Smithsonian.

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  19. A group portrait of the members of the 1975 Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council.

    Women Carrying out the Work of Change in the 1970s

    • Date: January 5, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.

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  21. 1963 March on Washington, 1963, by Jim Wallace, Smithsonian Institution Archives

    Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

    • Date: August 31, 2011
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    See Here: 1/21/2011

    • Date: January 21, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="403" caption="A side view of the Atlas Lions in a glass case displayed in the mammal hall of United States Nationa Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, These specimens came from the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition, 1909-1910, pre 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Cyanotype, Smithsonian Institution

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