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    Digitized Photos and Back Stories

    • Date: October 22, 2015
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Discovering the “back story” behind a unique digitized image in the Science Service collections.

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  3. Color image of a watercolor painting of cream cups

    A Friendship Revealed – and Revived?

    • Date: March 8, 2018
    • Description: It was, most likely, a foggy day in Oakland in 1882 when Miss Adelia Gates crossed the intersection of 12th and Washington streets and approached the Lemmon Herbarium.At 57, Adelia Gates was an accomplished artist and well-accustomed to new situations. She’d traveled alone to Scandinavia, Mallorca, Italy, and Algeria, and she’d lived in Switzerland while studying watercolor

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  5. Introducing Here At The Smithsonian

    • Date: December 29, 2020
    • Description: We are starting a new monthly blog series featuring episodes of Here At The Smithsonian.

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  7. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Fall 2019

    • Date: December 26, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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    Rediscovering Elizabeth’s Smile

    • Date: November 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  11. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

    Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

    • Date: May 1, 2013
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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  13. A No-Shave November Matching Game

    • Date: November 1, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: In observance of No-Shave November, play our Smithsonian history-themed matching game!

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  15. Alison Reppert Gerber, Preservation Coordinator, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 2015, by Mitch Toda.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: June 30, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: An introduction to our new Preservation Coordinator, Alison Reppert Gerber.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helena E. Wright

    • Date: November 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator Helena E. Wright, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, researches the role of graphic media in expanding visual culture and won a 2017 Secretary's Research Prize. #Groundbreaker

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  19. Workers elevate the Joseph Henry statue on wooden supports.

    Archives Puzzles: Joseph Henry on the Move

    • Date: December 7, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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  21. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: October 4, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

    • Date: March 11, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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