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    Celebrating Women’s History Month with #HerNaturalHistory

    • Date: March 7, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This month, we invite you to follow along as we participate in the Biodiversity Heritage Library’s Her Natural History campaign to highlight women natural scientists in our collections. And don’t forget to head to the Smithsonian Transcription Center to help us transcribe notes from women working in the field.

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  3. A woman wearing glasses poses for a photograph in front of nature scene.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Judy Gradwohl

    • Date: May 22, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Judy Gradwohl was a researcher, curator, environmental policy specialist, digital content developer, and leader at the Smithsonian, 1985–2016. She conducted research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and National Zoo, and eventually became the MacMillan Associate Director for Education and Public Engagement at the National Museum of American History in 2004.

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  5. Alexander Wetmore in Panama, 1947.

    The Smithsonian Secretaries: That Tall Man from New York, Part I

    • Date: April 26, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A look at the characteristics of the thirteen individuals who have led the Smithsonian.

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  7. Cockroach Kitchen, Dynamics of Evolution Hall, 1979, photographic print, Accession 13-125 - National Museum of Natural History, Office of Education, Exhibition Records, 1978-1979, 1995-1996, 2003, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. 87-7526.

    The Cockroach Kitchen

    • Date: October 29, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.

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    How Gloria Steinem Inspired Change at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: In December 1978, Gloria Steinem met with the Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council (SIWC) to advise the group on carrying out the work of change at the Smithsonian and to broaden members’ understanding of the women’s movement. As described by attendees, the conversation was “dynamite…great…wonderful.” One member expressed her surprise at finding Steinem so agreeable;

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    The Archives’ Hidden Women

    • Date: March 15, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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    Welcoming Smithsonian Secretaries

    • Date: November 5, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: Lonnie G. Bunch III was installed as the Fourteenth Secretary of the Smithsonian on November 1, 2019 in the historic Arts and Industries Building. To celebrate this new day in Smithsonian history, let’s take a look back at installations past!

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  15. A crowd stands in front of the architectural history office booth, which Field is standing behind.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cynthia R. Field

    • Date: October 7, 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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  17. Secretary G. Wayne Clough and Smithsonian Historian, Pam Henson, 12/4/2014

    And the award goes to...

    • Date: December 30, 2014
    • Creator: Anne Van Camp
    • Description: The Secretary’s Gold Medal for Exceptional Service was created in 1964 and is the highest honor given to Smithsonian staff for exceptional service over a long period of time. On December 4, 2014, Secretary G. Wayne Clough presented this award to Pam Henson for a lifetime of exceptional service to the Smithsonian Institution. She began her career here in 1973 and has been in

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    The “Enigmatic” First Artist-In-Residence at the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 7, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Late 2015, the beta version of the Smithsonian’s Learning Lab, a new digital platform providing access to digital resources across the Smithsonian alongside tools for teachers and students, launched. I was delighted to see a related social media update hinting at some of the discoveries to be had with the Learning Lab, one of which showed Saul Steinberg drawings on Smithsonian

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  21. Fleeing from the ruined city--California St., from Stockton to Ferry Tower, San Francisco, California, 1906, photograph by Underwood & Underwood, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, neg. no. 13496.

    The Smithsonian Seismological Institute

    • Date: August 26, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: The Smithsonian proposed creating a Seismological Institute after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906.

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  23. Opening reception for exhibit Sesame Street: The First 20 Years at National Museum of American History.

    Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street? It's at the Smithsonian!

    • Date: June 1, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: Take a trip back to Sesame Street and the Smithsonian's ten year exhibition about the show in 1979.

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