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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Barbara Faust

    • Date: September 18, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Barbara Faust, Smithsonian Gardens, 1977-present, became director in 2014. It was under Faust’s leadership as associate director that Smithsonian Gardens achieved accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. #Groundbreaker

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  3. Berlandier Fish (Pimelodus maculatus), Record Unit 7052 - Jean Louis Berlandier Papers, Box 12, Folder 14, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

    Jean Louis Berlandier: The Path from Geneva to Mexico

    • Date: June 5, 2014
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: A brief narrative on Jean Louis Berlandier, a French naturalist, and one of the first scientists to observe, collect , and document the natural history specimens of southeastern Texas and northeastern Mexico.

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    See Here: 2/11/2011

    • Date: February 11, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Watson M. Perrygo, taxidermist and exhibits preparator and zoological exhibits worker in the Department of Zoology, USNM, 1952-1958, and Alexander Wetmore, ornithologist and Sixth Secretary of Smithsonian, stand beside a truck carrying the identification of the United States Air Force (U.S.A.F. A-6331), March 14, 1952, by

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  7. World Watercolor Month at the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 22, 2021
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: We’re taking a look at the various watercolors the Smithsonian Institution has collected both past and present, highlighting the diversity in artists, technique, unique painting effect, and versatility to create anything from insects to cityscapes.

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  9. View of a snow-topped mountain. At the center of the photographs is a tree with trimmed branches and no leaves.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Spring 2021

    • Date: April 8, 2021
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Think your archival research is on hold while our reading room is closed? Think again!

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    Family Vacation

    • Date: March 24, 2009
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.

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  13. Slight damage on a piece of paper. There is a section of brown, dotted coloring on the parchment.

    I.D. This! Parchment

    • Date: November 21, 2019
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: For the next installment in our I.D. This! series, learn about parchment and how we identify it in our collections.

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    A Hungerford Property History of Women’s Rights

    • Date: March 25, 2021
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: We’ve learned so much about the specific women of James Smithson’s family though the Hungerford Deed—but what can it tell us about women’s rights in the eighteenth century?

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  17. Looking for love

    • Date: February 14, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Across the Smithsonian, in hundreds of photographic collections, you’ll find images that document historic objects and events, species on land and under the oceans, cultural achievement, and data that streams in from outer space on a daily basis.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Graskowiak

    • Date: December 23, 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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    Climbing to Historical Heights

    • Date: July 20, 2010
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: While in graduate school, I read that museum professionals wear many hats in one day. This could not be truer at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. [caption id="attachment_7424" align="alignright" width="180" caption="Climbing the Plank to the Top, May 27, 2010, by Lauren Dare, Digital photograph."][/caption] I’ve worn many hats working in the Institutional History Division

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  23. Page one of The Crossroads exhibit.

    Exhibiting the Enola Gay

    • Date: June 25, 2020
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: At the 50th anniversary of the atomic bomb, controversy surrounded the context in which the Enola Gay was to be displayed.

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