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  1. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Design + Archives: Star Search

    • Date: January 26, 2017
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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  3. People sit at desks in a lab area with jars of specimens on shelves. Men and women are pictured.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Roberta W. Rubinoff

    • Date: August 19, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Roberta Wolff Rubinoff was a biologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama between 1965 and 1979. In 1980, she was appointed the assistant director of the Office of Fellowships and Grants in Washington, D.C., and from 1986 to 2001, she served in the top role as director of the office.In Panama, Rubinoff served as the marine sciences coordinator and

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  5. Hall holds up the Guard of the Month certificate.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Elease Hall

    • Date: February 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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    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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  9. Record Player, National Museum of American History, 1986.3096.27.

    There Are Records and Then There Are Records

    • Date: April 12, 2016
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: Records, not to be confused with albums, are defined as information created or received during the course of business.

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  11. Trees of Christmas brochure, 1977. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-001: National Museum of American History, Department of Public Programs, Public Program Records, circa 1977-1994. Image nos. SIA2020-000651 to SIA2020-000657.

    Trees of Christmas

    • Date: December 19, 2019
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: On December 19, 1977 the Trees of Christmas exhibition opened at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History). This was the first exhibition of the Office of Horticulture (now Smithsonian Gardens) and featured trees with handcrafted ornaments representing a variety of countries and cultural traditions.

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  13. 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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  15. Portrait of elderly woman smiling in lab.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Elisabeth Gantt

    • Date: September 27, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Molecular geneticist and distinguished professor, Dr. Elisabeth Gannt, was a research associate at the Smithsonian's Radiation Biology Laboratory where she studied algae photosynthesis, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 when only 5 percent of the members were women. #Groundbreaker

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    Seeing the Invisible (Part 2)

    • Date: June 1, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Almost here … World Migratory Bird Day 2019!

    • Date: May 9, 2019
    • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
    • Description: While only two years old, World Migratory Bird Day is just one of the latest evolutions in conservation awareness. Related celebrations go back more than twenty-six years and draw on over a century of research.

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  21. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

    Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

    • Date: August 25, 2015
    • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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  23. Link Love: 12/20/2019

    • Date: December 20, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Most archival “discovery” stories are bogus, but this one (from the Smithsonian’s Joseph Cornell Study Center) is very, very cool! [via Artnet]DCist features some of the objects from the Library of Congress's new Rosa Parks exhibit. [via DCist] [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9968,size=450,center]Medieval medical manuscripts depict unrealistically happy patients. [via Onisillos

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