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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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  3. Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

    Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

    • Date: January 7, 2020
    • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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  5. 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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  7. Takin' Care of Records

    • Date: April 17, 2018
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Did you know April is Records and Information Management Month? Did you also know that the Smithsonian Institution has over 154 million objects, 10 million digital records, and 156,830 cubic feet of archival materials in its collections? It is mostly thanks to amazing record keeping that we are able to locate, care, and give access to millions of fascinating objects.We look at

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  9. Fannon gives a presentation in the front of a room.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Molly Fannon

    • Date: January 27, 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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  11. Videohistory interview at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 1990.

    Born Digital - Video Recording in the 21st Century

    • Date: October 5, 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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    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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    Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial

    • Date: August 10, 2020
    • Description: The Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.

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  17. "The whole Smithsonian was like one big family . . . "

    • Date: March 12, 2013
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: For forty years, Miss Helena Weiss kept the Smithsonian running smoothly as a clerk, stenographer, director of the Office of Correspondence and Documents, and Registrar. When she retired, her position was divided into seven separate jobs.

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    From Defense to Decoration: the Renwick Gallery in the Civil War

    • Date: August 22, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Oil based portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt profile wearing a blue suit and tie, signed Secretary Roosevelt.

    Remembering the Exhibitions Celebrating the Centennial of FDR's Birth

    • Date: January 28, 2021
    • Description: In 1982, the Smithsonian Institution paid homage to the birth of the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, born January 30, 1882, through six new exhibits.

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    Smithsonian’s First Earth Day

    • Date: April 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: How did the Smithsonian take part in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970?

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