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  1. Getty Image Used in Game of Thrones Recap of Season 6, Episode 1.

    Link Love: 5/20/2016

    • Date: May 20, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: SPOILER ALERT! The Getty Museum is summarizing Game of Thrones episodes each Monday on Tumblr. (via Mental Floss)The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has openly released their patent and trademark datasets to developers. (via Info Docket)Daunting - "Archiving a Website for Ten Thousand Years." (via Atlantic)The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery now has a

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    Research at the Archives: Finding Grasses for the South

    • Date: May 26, 2011
    • Description: As a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History, I’ve spent months in the Smithsonian Institution Archives researching a book tentatively titled, Not Naturally a Grass Country: Environment, Plant Genetics, and the Quest for Agricultural Modernization in the Humid World. It’s largely a story about global attempts to replace one form of agriculture—the

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  5. International Conference on the Biology of Whales in Virginia in 1971. Credit via NOAA.

    Deconstructing a “Man’s World” One Woman at a Time

    • Date: August 2, 2018
    • Description: Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.

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  7. A woman stands in an exhibit space in front of pottery. A forrest or jungle scene is in the background.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Joan Madden

    • Date: February 5, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Joan Madden, Assistant Director for Education, 1987–88, Supervisory Information and Education Specialist, 1980–86, and Education Coordinator, 1974–80, was integral to the development and management of the Discovery Room and Naturalist Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. She also managed volunteers for Smithsonian’s Office of Elementary and Secondary

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  9. A woman wearing glasses poses for a photograph in front of nature scene.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Judy Gradwohl

    • Date: May 22, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Judy Gradwohl was a researcher, curator, environmental policy specialist, digital content developer, and leader at the Smithsonian, 1985–2016. She conducted research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and National Zoo, and eventually became the MacMillan Associate Director for Education and Public Engagement at the National Museum of American History in 2004.

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  11. Cockroach Kitchen, Dynamics of Evolution Hall, 1979, photographic print, Accession 13-125 - National Museum of Natural History, Office of Education, Exhibition Records, 1978-1979, 1995-1996, 2003, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. no. 87-7526.

    The Cockroach Kitchen

    • Date: October 29, 2013
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A cockroach covered kitchen illustrated population potential in a National Museum of Natural History exhibit.

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    Link Love: 3/4/2011

    • Date: March 4, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="Uncle Beazley being unloaded at the Smithsonian’s Office of Exhibits Central model shop, February 2011, Courtesy of Office of Exhibits Central blog."][/caption] Even dinosaurs need their baths… The Office of Exhibits Central gives a behind-the-scenes peek into the dino maintenance of Uncle Beazley—the Smithsonian’s

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    The Archives’ Hidden Women

    • Date: March 15, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the

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  17. A crowd stands in front of the architectural history office booth, which Field is standing behind.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Cynthia R. Field

    • Date: October 7, 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.

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    See Here: 11/24/2009

    • Date: November 24, 2009
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="272" caption="Joseph Henry, First Smithsonian Secretary, 1862, by Titian Ramsay Peale, Card photograph, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 27-B, Negative Number:10603. "][/caption]

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  21. Fannon gives a presentation in the front of a room.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Molly Fannon

    • Date: January 27, 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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    Looking Wayback on the Smithsonian’s Sesquicentennial

    • Date: August 10, 2020
    • Description: The Smithsonian marked its 150th birthday with a huge celebration and special website in 1996.

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