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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Brandie Smith

      • Date: April 11, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Smithsonian National Zoo's Associate Director for Animal Care Sciences, Dr. Brandie Smith, oversees the care and of 3,000 animals and ensures the genetic diversity of the species living in zoos. #Groundbreaker

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    3. Close-up photograph of Claudine K. Brown.

      Remembering the Work of Claudine K. Brown

      • Date: March 23, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: In a 1991 issue of the Prophet, the Smithsonian African American Association’s newsletter, Claudine Kinard Brown called on staff to support Black museums across the country.

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    5. Halides on display in a well-lit exhibit case.

      Archives Puzzles: Shine Bright Like a Halide

      • Date: January 11, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    7. Information Kit Cover for Operation Reindeer. Santa flying with reindeer is on the cover.

      Operation Reindeer

      • Date: December 22, 2010
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: You have probably heard of Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, and Vixen. Even Comet, Cupid, Donder and Blitzen. And I know you have heard of Rudolph. But do you recall the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s most famous reindeers of all? “Operation Reindeer” was the most publicized event of 1958. Fourteen reindeer and one caribou made their way, sans the open sleigh, to Washington, D.C., for

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      This Week: Smithsonian Archives Fair and “Ask the Smithsonian” Q&A

      • Date: October 10, 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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    11. Portrait photograph of a woman wearing glasses and smiling toward the camera. She is wearing a striped top and a long necklace.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Margaret S. Child

      • Date: May 25, 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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    13. A woman wearing a lab coat and gloves holds to square, white objects up near a machine that resembles a large scanner.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Judith Blake

      • Date: September 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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    15. Keepsake pocket bank for the National Negro Memorial, ca. 1926

      The First Quest for a National African American Museum

      • Date: September 22, 2016
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: As National Museum of African American History and Culture opens, let’s look at the first efforts to establish a National African American Museum.

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      The Woman with the Gramophone

      • Date: April 2, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: [caption id="attachment_396" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption="Save Our Sounds Postcard, Photo Courtesy of National Anthropological Archives"][/caption] For the last few years, I’ve had this postcard up in my office promoting Save Our Sounds, a program by the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (CFCH) and the Library of Congress dedicated to restoring,

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    19. An 8 inch floppy disk.

      How Computers Took Off at the National Air and Space Museum: 1980-1981

      • Date: December 1, 2016
      • Description: A look at a survey of computer usage at the National Air and Space Museum in 1980.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Betty Meggers

      • Date: January 11, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Betty Meggers, Director of the Latin American Archaeology Program, National Museum of Natural History, and her husband, Clifford Evans, were the first archaeologists to study ancient Amazonians and they revolutionized thinking about early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. #Groundbreaker

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    23. Portrait of Marine biologist, Dr. Nancy Knowlton

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Nancy Knowlton

      • Date: December 7, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In honor of Dr. Knowlton winning the Smithsonian Secretary's Distinguished Scholar Award. Marine biologist, Dr. Nancy Knowlton, National Museum of Natural History, uses advanced molecular methods combined with globally standardized sampling to explore the hidden diversity that has been ignored by traditional approaches, a key component of the Smithsonian’s MarineGeo program.

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