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  1. Portrait of Dr. Follette with graphic of text

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette

    • Date: August 23, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Independent scholar and research associate at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, researches the popularization science through the media, and has helped raise the profile of close to 1000 female scientists found in the collections at the Archives! #Groundbreaker

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  3. United States Fish Commission Pennsylvania

    Sneak Peek 4/14/2014

    • Date: April 14, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Unidentified men carry pails full of fish specimens to a United States Fish Commission Pennsylvania "Fish Car."

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  5. Spencer and Mary Baird sit in chairs and Lucy Baird stands behind her father.

    Lucy Hunter Baird: Much More Than a Devoted Daughter

    • Date: March 5, 2020
    • Description: Lucy Hunter Baird did not shy away from her father’s towering legacy in American science, she embraced it. As the only child of Spencer Fullerton Baird, second Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, Lucy Baird developed a passion for her father’s discipline of ornithology (the study of birds) and strove to chronicle his extraordinary life in a biography. Although she was

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  7. Contact sheet of black-and-white negatives from McCarthy’s retirement parties. Scenes show McCarthy receiving gifts and posing with staff and Smithsonian leaders, including former Secretary Charles G. Abbot.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Eileen M. McCarthy

    • Date: April 27, 2022
    • 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. Lower Deck of U.S. Fish Commission Research Vessel

    Sneak Peek 3/13/2017

    • Date: March 13, 2017
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: McDonald hatching jars in the hatchery on the lower deck of the U.S. Fish Commission research vessel "Fish Hawk," MAH-8069.

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  11. Is that you, John Quincy Adams?

    • Date: February 20, 2012
    • Creator: Kirsten Tyree
    • Description: In honor of President’s Day, the Smithsonian Institution Archives shares letters from President John Quincy Adams from our collections.

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  13. 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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  15. U.S. Fish Commission Schooner, Fish Hawk

    Sneak Peek 3/17/2014

    • Date: March 17, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: The Fish Hawk, a schooner and floating hatchery that was the first vessel constructed for the U.S. Fish Commission in 1880 for the purposes of marine research.

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  17. United States Fish Commission Research Laboratory

    Sneak Peek 5/19/2014

    • Date: May 19, 2014
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Stereoscopic photograph of unidentified men at work in the laboratory of the United States Fish Commission research station in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

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    Television and the Smithsonian: Worldly Success

    • Date: December 18, 2012
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: For six seasons, beginning in 1984, the television series Smithsonian World opened new windows on the research and scientists at the Smithsonian Institution.

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  21. Photographers with photographic equipment by the U.S. Fish Commission fish hatchery ponds located near the grounds of the Washington Monument.

    Vintage Shutterbugs

    • Date: May 26, 2020
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: Did you know that May is National Photography Month? Declared by Congress as a month-long event in 1987, National Photography Month celebrates all aspects of photography. We invite you to see what our photographers were up to a century before this declaration in this behind- the-scenes slideshow of the photographic laboratory spaces, set-ups, and equipment of the United States

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  23. Middlegate Japanese Gardens, Pass Christian, Mississippi.

    Link Love: 8/26/2011

    • Date: August 26, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: How photos from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens help preserve the memory of gardens (such as the Middlegate Japanese Gardens pictured above) that are now gone. The Museum of the Future has a great roundup of videos and blogs about museums, technology, and media. An update on earthquake damage at the Smithsonian, and hear Smithsonian Secretary (and earthquake

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