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    1. Wild animals of Glacier National Park, 1918. Vernon and Florence Merriam Bailey. Courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library.

      Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives

      • Date: February 11, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.

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    3. Disk Diving: A Born Digital Collections Survey at the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2012
      • Description: Details of a physical inventory/survery that is ongoing at the Smithsonian. The project is focused on finding and documenting born digital items at different archival units.

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      The World Is Yours: Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress

      • Date: August 6, 2020
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Listen to reenactments of two articles that were published in the 1936 Smithsonian Annual Report as broadcast during The World Is Yours episode “Smithsonian Annual Report of Scientific Progress.”

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    7. A diver in a wetsuit and diving gear stops for an underwater photo.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Laurie M. Penland

      • Date: June 5, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Laurie M. Penland, Diving Officer for the Smithsonian Scientific Diving Program, has traveled the globe providing diving support and training since 2005. She is also a professional photographer, capturing underwater photographs and videos for the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker

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    9. From the field notebook of Robert H. Gibbs, Jr.

      Scientific Snack Breaks: Picnics in the Field Books

      • Date: July 13, 2017
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: Go on a picnic through the field book collection, with a look at scientific snack breaks.

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    11. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

      “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

      • Date: March 13, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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      Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator

      • Date: August 4, 2020
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States National Museum.

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    15. George McBryde, Museum Aide in the Division of Cultural History.

      The Long Journey to Scientific Aide: Barry Hampton’s Career

      • Date: February 16, 2017
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: Barry Hampton played an important role in Division of Reptiles and Amphibians in the Natural History Museum for decades, but recognition was slow to come.

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      Field Book Project Highlights Scientific Exploration with New Flickr Commons Photos

      • Date: November 17, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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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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      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 2 of 2: Who and How, and Why It Matters

      • Date: September 10, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: The historical legacy of amatuer photographer Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) is far greater than was acknowledged at the time, because of both who he photographed and how he set up the images.

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      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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