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    1. A photo slide of a man sitting at a desk.

      Collection Highlights: New Additions to the Archives Website

      • Date: January 12, 2021
      • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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    3. Another scrapbook, previously disbound, in much worse condition. See a previous archivist’s insert on the right, presumably assessing the book’s condition: “A hideous example of what happens to records which are left to the tender graces of time.” Courtesy of Marie Desrochers.

      Mending Tissues and More: Stabilizing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbooks for Digitization

      • Date: August 25, 2015
      • Description: Intern Marie Desrochers details her experience with co-intern Sarah Casto, stabilizing and rehousing the Macbeth Gallery Scrapbook collection at Archives of American Art.

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    5. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

      • Date: September 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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    7. Six women pose for a photograph. The photo is dated 8-31-30. The names of the women are written in cursive below the photo.The include: Louise A. Rosenbusch, Louise Pearson, Narcissus Smith, Helen A. Olmsted, Nellie Smith, and Margaret W. Moodey.

      Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women

      • Date: January 7, 2020
      • Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.

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    9. Portrait of Amy Ballard.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Amy Ballard

      • Date: August 25, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Amy Ballard is a senior historic preservation specialist emerita with the Smithsonian’s Architectural History and Historic Preservation Office, where she worked between 1985 until her retirement in 2016. She was promoted to senior historic preservation specialist in 2010. Ballard has contributed to plans for new buildings, including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the

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    11. The Education of George C. Wheeler - Part III

      • Date: February 7, 2013
      • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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    13. William Zeckendorf sits behind desk in his

      The Failed Zeckendorf Plan

      • Date: November 19, 2013
      • Description: During planning of the future National Museum of American History, Webb and Knapp attempted to move it off the Mall into Southwest Washington.

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    15. Star Symbol memorandum, August 30, 1968. Record Unit 319: National Collection of Fine Arts, Publication Editor, Departmental Records, 1967-1970, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Design + Archives: Star Search

      • Date: January 26, 2017
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Searching through the Smithsonian Institution Archives collections to find our who designed the star logo for the National Collection of Fine Arts.

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    17. Serpents, Slugs and Science: The Interesting Career of Paul Bartsch

      • Date: August 9, 2012
      • Description: Learn about Smithsonian zoologist Paul Bartsch, whose love of mollusks and science was not just a career but a way of life.

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    19. Oil painting of woman sitting at desk next to sunlit window.

      Link Love: 3/10/2017

      • Date: March 10, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: 2017 Women's History Month edition!Explore the changing role of female artists with Europeana. [via Europeana Twitter]The Smithsonian's Latino Center is accepting applications for their 2017 Young Ambassadors Program for graduating high school seniors! [via Smithsonian's Office of Fellowships and Internships]You can help transribe Phyllis Diller's joke file from the

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    21. True Colors

      • Date: November 21, 2017
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Contrasting black and white with color photography by Smithsonian Institution photographers.

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      Documenting the Smithsonian’s Pandemic Response

      • Date: March 16, 2021
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: While teleworking for the last year, the Archives has been busy capturing web content that documents the Smithsonian’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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