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    1. Manjula Kumar standing in front of a sculpture of Ganesha, the Hindu symbol of good fortune.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Manjula Kumar

      • Date: March 25, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Manjula Kumar was a Project Manager and Project Director in various offices around the Smithsonian, including the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Education and Public Service and the Center for Education and Museum Studies, between 1985 and 2015. She organized multicultural programming and directed the award process for proposals submitted to the Educational Outreach

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    3. Lerner puts his hands over Rosenberg’s as the two hold a knife and cut into a cake with a Christmas tree on its top. They are both smiling at the camera.

      Dorothy Rosenberg: "A Low-keyed Dynamo"

      • Date: September 16, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: As an administrative officer to two Assistant Secretaries and as executive assistant to Secretary Ripley, Dorothy Rosenberg was the backbone behind the Smithsonian’s top offices between 1959 and 1980.

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    5. Program for the Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian, February 11, 1927.

      A Twofer

      • Date: February 10, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: The Conference on the Future of the Smithsonian took place on February 11, 1927, raising awareness of the activities of the Smithsonian and at the same time served as a venue to raise money.

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    7. Kathy Boi, volunteer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Volunteer Appreciation: Kathy Boi

      • Date: April 14, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: We celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month by recognizing Kathy Boi, an oral history project volunteer.

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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,

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    11. 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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    13. Letter with letterhead of the United States National Museum in light blue, body of letter written in black ink.

      Archival Fingerprints - Meredith Smith Diggs

      • Date: October 21, 2021
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Meredith Smith Diggs was employed at the Smithsonian in different capacities and was closely associated with the second Secretary of the Smithsonian, Spencer Fullerton Baird. Through Diggs' correspondence we can get a small glimpse of his life and work at the Smithsonian.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Woman Employee: Jane W. Turner, Librarian

      • Date: March 27, 2014
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Jane Turner was the first paid female employee at the Smithsonian, eventually becoming the Smithsonian’s Librarian.

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    17. B&W photograph of steel crossbeams above a wide open room.

      Designed for Change: The Experimental Gallery, 1991-1994

      • Date: July 5, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: For a period of time in the early 1990s, the Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries Building played host to an experimental exhibition gallery space.

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    19. You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog

      • Date: August 22, 2019
      • Creator: Heidi Stover
      • Description: Pupper, doggy, hound, bowwow, beastie, pooch. No matter what we call dogs, they have always been man’s best friend. In honor of writing a second blog for National Dog Day, let’s take a look at the pooches that pop up around the Smithsonian Institution.[view:sia_slideshow==87224]Related Resources"Gone But Not Forgotten: Former Animals at the National Zoo," The Bigger Picture"Me

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      Another Wonderful Winter of Wetmore

      • Date: January 12, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: On this day, 72 years ago, ornithologist Alexander Wetmore became Smithsonian Secretary--continuing his life-long dedication to field research! Help transcribe Wetmore’s extensive research and make it available for a new generation of field scientists.

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    23. S. Dillon Ripley Views Quadrangle, 1987

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

      • Date: April 28, 2016
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: The 1846 legislation that established the Smithsonian Institution provided for a Secretary, appointed by the Board of Regents, who would run the day-to-day affairs of the Institution. When David Skorton became Secretary last year, he was the thirteenth person to take on that responsibility. In our last blog, we discussed the first six and now we’ll look at seven through

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