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Who Was Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder?
- Date: March 5, 2015
- Creator: Kira M. Sobers
- Description: Mystery who Ruth MacCoy Blackwelder may be solved once her journals go up on the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
Miscellaneous Mysteries of the Universe
- Date: October 28, 2014
- Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
- Description: In this next edition of our Miscellaneous Adventures, choose your own adventures by diving into the folders yourself in the Smithsonian Transcription Center.
Fern P. Rathe: Navigating the Lab and the Skies
- Date: December 17, 2013
- Description: An update on the life and career of chemist and pilot Fern P. Rathe, featured in the Women in Science Wednesday post on July 17, 2013.
Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian
- Date: June 14, 2018
- Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some
Technology Throwback Thursday: Snail Mail and Word Processors
- Date: July 10, 2014
- Creator: Jennifer Wright
- Description: A brief look at the evolution of public inquiries at the Smithsonian.
Smithsonian Institution Archives Moves to Drupal 7
- Date: September 26, 2013
- Creator: Andrew Whitesell
- Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently completed an upgrade from Drupal 6 to Drupal 7.
Representation and Condensation
- Date: July 30, 2013
- Description: How can archivists of oral histories preserve a true-to-life picture of interviews?
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Look! Up In the Sky! It's . . .
- Date: July 1, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="277" caption="Cascading Light, by Terry Mann."][/caption] It was 3 o’clock in the morning and something out of the ordinary was happening. And good neighbor that she is—although it might not seem that way to all of you—Terry Mann grabbed her camera then started waking people up. There wasn’t anything wrong in the neighborhood, but she
Science Service, Up Close: Radio Extends the Audience, Inauguration Day, 1925
- Date: January 19, 2017
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: President Calvin Coolidge's second inauguration in 1925 reaches an audience of millions, thanks to a new technological innovation--the radio.
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Save Our African American Treasures
- Date: March 29, 2011
- Description: [caption id="attachment_12162" align="aligncenter" width="384" caption="A participant discusses a lock of hair from a member of her family with NMAAHC staff at a Save Our African American Treasures event held in Detroit, Michigan, by Michael Barnes, Courtesy of The Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture."][/caption] [caption
Thinking Outside the Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Date: July 2, 2019
- Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
- Description: There are many smaller archival conferences to learn about new tools and projects.
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When Lucy Met Bill: A Smithsonian “Meet-Cute”
- Date: February 13, 2020
- Creator: Hannah Byrne
- Description: He said, “Have a chocolate. They’re good for librarians.” I said, “I’m not a librarian. I’m an editor.”