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      Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2016
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    3. Digital contact sheet that includes 12 photographs of Jones standing in front of the Smithsonian Castle. He is wearing a suit. He looks directly toward the camera and slightly off into the distance in various photographs.

      The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones

      • Date: February 17, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.

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      The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

      • Date: October 3, 2017
      • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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    7. Dr. Robert P. Multauf, Director of the Museum of History and Technology, now known as the National Museum of American History. April 5, 1966.

      Bald and Free Smithsonian

      • Date: October 14, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of Bald and Free Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents bald or partially bald employees and visitors to the Smithsonian.

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    9. Web Archiving Update

      • Date: August 6, 2013
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: A progress report on the Archives' web archiving effort since subscribing to Archive-It.

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    11. Roslyn A. Walker stands at the center of a large group posing for a picture. The label above the title reads:

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Roslyn A. Walker

      • Date: June 3, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Roslyn A. Walker was the Director of Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art from 1997 to 2002. Under her leadership, the Museum welcomed a new permanent gallery for contemporary art, a development office, and the Friends of African Art support committee. From 1981 until her appointment, Walker had worked at the Museum as a curator, specializing in Nigerian art.

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    13. Portrait photograph of a woman with short, brown, red hair and glasses.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Barbara Tuceling

      • Date: September 29, 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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    15. Staff from Office of Computing Services and Accounting Office with New Computing Equipment

      Sneak Peek 12/10/2018

      • Date: December 10, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Staff from Office of Computing Services and the Accounting Office with new computing equipment for use in the implementation of the Smithsonian Institution Financial Management Information System (SIFMIS), SIA RU000371, 78-6288-31.

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      Tracking Down the Elusive ‘Treasure House for Learning’

      • Date: December 23, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Software tools are helping the Smithsonian find its early websites from the 1990s on the web.

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    19. Archives Technician Deborah Shapiro.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: February 28, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: An introduction to our new Archives Technicians.

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    21. Francine Berkowitz, former Director of the Office of International Relations

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Francine Berkowitz

      • Date: November 2, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: As the Smithsonian Women's Council Career Development Chair, Francine Berkowitz, former Director of the Office of International Relations, established career planning workshops to help women and minorities advance at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Mary F. Miller’s handwriting on a document that lists all of the Vermont Mosses she collected in 1904.

      Mary Farnham Miller, A Lifelong Botanist

      • Date: August 17, 2021
      • Description: Learn more about botanist Mary Farnham Miller who held positions in the Sullivant Moss Society and the Smithsonian’s Department of Botany in the early twentieth century.

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