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Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Judith Blake
- Date: September 23, 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.
Wish you (or your image) were here
- Date: August 7, 2009
- Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.
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Teachers’ Night 2012
- Date: October 9, 2012
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives helps celebrate education at Teachers’ Night 2012.
A Close-up with Field Book “Specimens”
- Date: December 26, 2017
- Creator: William Bennett
- Description: The Smithsonian’s Field Book Project is a continuous fount of work for both our digitization crew here at the Archives and for me as the conservator in charge of the project’s physical needs. Over the past several weeks I have worked on a variety of field books with different structures and treatment requirements, and will share a few of the most common features I’ve seen in
Finding Something Cool Without Even Trying
- Date: August 2, 2012
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Japanese internees in Topaz, Utah find a meteorite.
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Diminutive but Determined: Mary Jane Rathbun
- Date: March 6, 2014
- Creator: Pamela M. Henson
- Description: Mary Jane Rathbun, diminutive but determined, was the first full time female curator at the Smithsonian.
National Air and Space Frisbee Festival
- Date: June 12, 2014
- Description: A brief look into the 1977, 1978 and 1979 National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Festival held on the National Mall.
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Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum
- Date: January 28, 2020
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.
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Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man
- Date: February 1, 2011
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,
Meet the Birds of the National Mall
- Date: July 3, 2014
- Description: Have you noticed that the Mall is aflutter with birds? Dive into the history of the Smithsonian’s interactions with our avian neighbors.
Link Love: 12/23/2011
- Date: December 23, 2011
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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New Flickr Commons Set: Mary Agnes Chase Field Books
- Date: March 22, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: A new set of Flickr Commons images from the field books of Mary Agnes Chase—a grass specialist, botanist, and suffragist.