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  1. Making Plaster Mold of Body of Sulphur-Bottom Whale, 1903, lantern slide.

    A Whale of a Tale

    • Date: November 13, 2014
    • Creator: Andrew Whitesell
    • Description: In honor of the 163rd anniversary of the publishing of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, here’s a whale themed slideshow.

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  3.  Varnell works on a clay project in a studio.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kathleen Varnell

    • Date: September 15, 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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  5. Samuel F. B. Morse's Daguerreotype Equipment, 1888, by Thomas Smillie, SIA RU000095 [10625].

    The Life Work of Smillie

    • Date: July 15, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: There is a remarkable figure in the Smithsonian’s history that doesn’t get much of the spotlight; Thomas W. Smillie. He served as the Smithsonian’s first official photographer from 1870 until his death in 1917, and additionally became the Smithsonian’s first photography curator in 1896. Smillie amassed a collection of photographic equipment starting with the purchase of the

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  7. Photograph of Manning holding up an award in the shape of a round dish.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Catherine Lemmon Manning

    • Date: June 2, 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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  9. Portrait of Cipalla. She is wearing a blazer and button down.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Rita C. Cipalla

    • Date: December 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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  11. Black and white photo of man wearing military style helmet

    Architect Victor Lundy at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 1, 2013
    • Description: As the architect Victor Lundy turns 90, we look back at the redwood shade structures he designed in the mid-1960s for the terrace of the new Museum of History and Technology (today the National Museum of American History).

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  13. Secretary Adams: A Fascination with Fieldwork

    • Date: September 13, 2018
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: Learn more about Secretary Robert Adams through his oral histories, which are newly available for research.

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  15. Here at the Smithsonian: Trips to the National Zoo

    • Date: October 26, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Watch two recently-digitized clips featuring scenes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1982.

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  17. Here at the Smithsonian: Modern Japanese Art

    • Date: May 25, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Watch a recently-digitized video clip featuring Japanese Ceramics Today, an exhibition at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 1983.

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  19. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

    Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

    • Date: July 6, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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  21. Screenshot of the Vaccines and US archived website that shows a banner noting it was archived August 5, 2021.

    Another Year of Collecting Online History

    • Date: March 31, 2022
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Changing museum hours and new websites meant another busy year for Smithsonian website archiving.

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  23. Presentation of Kennedy Aircraft

    Sweet Caroline

    • Date: November 18, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The Kennedy Family presents their twin engine Convair CV-240, "Caroline" to the Smithsonian.

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