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    See Here: 3/24/2011

    • Date: March 24, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="National Museum of Natural History physical anthropologists Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997) hold a seventeen and one half foot long beard found in a North Dakota attic, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History

    • Date: March 15, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia

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  5. Mr. Rogers and Ambika, July 1982, by Terry Arthur.

    Mr. Rogers at the Zoo

    • Date: June 18, 2013
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: The popular childrens’ TV program, Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood, pays a visit to the National Zoological Park in 1982.

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  7. Rolls of film featuring a celebration of Juneteenth at the Anacostia Community Museum. Scenes include people chatting, a clown in a crowd, and people doing crafts at a table.

    When did the Smithsonian Begin Celebrating Juneteenth?

    • Date: June 9, 2022
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: African American communities have celebrated Juneteenth for more than 150 years. When did the Smithsonian begin hosting programs to commemorate the nation’s second independence day?

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    The Smithsonian’s First Garden

    • Date: May 31, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9273,size=500,center]Have you ever heard of Smithsonian Park? If you are visiting the Smithsonian today, probably not. But if you had visited the Smithsonian in the 1850s, it would have been one of the first things you experienced.Smithsonian Park occupied the area between the Smithsonian Institution Building, or the Castle, and Downtown Washington,

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  11. A screenshot of the Smithsonian’s mobile website as it appears on the Internet.

    Connecting the Dots: Issues with Preserving Complex Websites

    • Date: July 17, 2012
    • Description: Capturing websites that contain a lot of JavaScript and Flash content pose serious problems for web archivists.

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  13. The Smithsonian and South Carolina in the Civil War

    • Date: June 6, 2013
    • Description: A surprising Civil War connection between the Smithsonian and Beaufort, South Carolina.

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    June 9 is Ask Archivists Day

    • Date: June 6, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: June the 9th is AskArchivists Day: a day organized by the International Council on Archives to encourage you to ask professional archivists all over the world all of those burning questions about about their profession and about the collections in archives you've always wanted answered.[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="The Smithsonian Institution

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  17. A woman adjusts a sewing machine in an exhibit case.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Doris M. Bowman

    • Date: January 13, 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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  19. Photo of a women working on treatment of a poster of Uncle Sam. The caption below her reads: Eleanor McMillan, Conservator, Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory, 1963–94, supervised conservation projects and educational and training programs. After retirement, McMillan provided initial funding for the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation and donated her 1965 Ford Mustang to Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. #Groundbreaker

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Eleanor McMillan

    • Date: February 19, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Eleanor McMillan, Conservator, Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Laboratory, 1963–94, supervised conservation projects and educational and training programs. Although she began as a generalist, McMillan became the first paper conservator in the laboratory. After retirement, she provided initial funding for the Smithsonian Center for Archives Conservation and donated her

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  21. Smithsonian experts consult with members of the public about their items.

    Save the Date for the 2011 Smithsonian Archives Fair

    • Date: September 26, 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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  23. Putting It All Together: The Assembly and Rehousing of Glass Plate Negatives

    • Date: August 21, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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