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  1. An excerpt from He is a Negro Still, by Solomon G. Brown.

    "He is a Negro Still": The Poetry of Solomon Brown

    • Date: February 9, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: An excerpt from "He is a Negro Still," by Solomon G. Brown, the Smithsonian's first African American employee.

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  3. Drop us a line!

    • Date: July 6, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: We’re getting into the middle of the summer months and many of us have vacation or travel planned. Whether you’re hopping across the globe, or planning a “staycation” at home, take a trip virtually by browsing through some of the delightful postcards in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Jane Walsh

    • Date: July 4, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator Emeritus Dr. Jane Walsh, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, developed a specialty in pre-Columbian lapidary technology to better understand the technological advancements of ancient cultures. #Groundbreaker

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler

    • Date: June 20, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator of Oceanic Ethnology Dr. Adrienne Kaeppler, Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, is an expert on Tongan dance and was honored by the YWCA as a leading female scientist whose work increased the understanding of native cultures. #Groundbreaker

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  9. Stamp with a red-ish brown tone that features the Smithsonian Institution Building. The text reads: “3 cent sign, 1846 Smithsonian Institution 1946.

    Celebrating the Smithsonian Centennial

    • Date: July 20, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: In August 1996, the Smithsonian marked its 150th anniversary with a huge birthday celebration on the National Mall. For its sesquicentennial, a term which this author constantly forgets no matter how many times she looks it up, the Institution threw itself a two-day birthday party, sprinkled with special exhibit tents, concerts, nineteen birthday cakes, a special website, and

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    Link Love: 1/6/2017

    • Date: January 6, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: New year edition!2017 public domain graduates! [via Public Domain Review]New Year's goals: champing. [via Atlas Obscura]The not-so-ancient art of diagramming sentences. [via NPR]Hallmark used to bring world renowned artists to the masses. [via Artsy]A parasitic scale insect known as cochineal is behind the "true red" color in ancient art. [via The Iris, Getty]Historian, Free

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Katrina D. Lashley

    • Date: November 11, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Katrina D. Lashley has been the program coordinator of Urban Waterways at Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum since 2012. The research and educational initiative aims to create a better understanding of the relationships between urban communities and their waterways.Lashley earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature and Italian from Rutgers University and a

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    Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

    • Date: October 9, 2018
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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  17. Here at the Smithsonian: Trips to the National Zoo

    • Date: October 26, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Watch two recently-digitized clips featuring scenes at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo in 1982.

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  19. Merzbach stands at the forefront of a photograph with three men and one woman standing behind her. They are in a computer lab.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Uta C. Merzbach

    • Date: December 30, 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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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp

    • Date: February 14, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Curator Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp, Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum, oversees the museum's social and cultural dimensions of spaceflight collection, and wrote a book about early women in space programs which won the 2004 Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature. #Groundbreaker

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  23. A woman adjusts a sewing machine in an exhibit case.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Doris M. Bowman

    • Date: January 13, 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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