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    Not “Just Another Doll”: Two Orchids for Miss Stafford

    • Date: March 11, 2014
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: The letters of Science Service medical editor Jane Stafford (1899-1991) offer a glimpse into the lives of women in the 1930s.

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  3. Crowds at the U.S. Capitol, assembled for the second inauguration of John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. , 1925.

    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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  5. A woman smiles at a camera. She is wearing a corsage.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Estelle Beck

    • Date: April 29, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Estelle Beck, Head Switchboard Operator, 1960–77, led a small team of women who were responsible for fielding hundreds of daily calls to the Smithsonian. Beck also operated telephones at the Smithsonian for three years prior to World War II. #Groundbreaker

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  7. Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe at age 19, wearing her Cartier engagement ring (part of the sale). Photograph courtesy of Sotheby’s.

    James Smithson and “The Duchess”: The Sotheby’s Sale of Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe’s Property

    • Date: May 27, 2015
    • Description: As a remarkable auction of artifacts of a bygone aristocratic world takes place, we look at a surprising connection between Mary, Duchess of Roxburghe and the Smithsonian’s founding benefactor, James Smithson

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  9. Full Steam Ahead: The Motorcycle’s Bicycle Beginnings

    • Date: May 24, 2016
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: A look at the steam tricycle and other bicycle innovations during the turn of the 20th century.

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  11. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. T90108, Smithsonian Institution Office of the Secretary, Administrative Records, 1953-1972

    • Date: 1953 1953-1972
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of the Secretary
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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    SIA RU000250, National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.) Division of Electricity and Modern Physics, Records, 1886-1978

    • Date: 1886 1886-1978
    • Creator: National Museum of History and Technology. Division of Electricity and Modern Physics
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  15. Record Unit 548, National Museum of Natural History Division of Meteorites Folder: India - Miscellaneous

    Record Unit 548, National Museum of Natural History Division of Meteorites Folder: India - Miscellaneous

    • Date: 1970-1977
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Meteorites
    • Creator: National Museum of Natural History (U.S.) Division of Meteorites

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  17. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 82-121, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Assistant Director for Administration, Records, 1970-1981

    • Date: 1970 1970-1981
    • Creator: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Assistant Director for Administration
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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  19. Webpage

    Joseph Henry's Life

    • Date: March 20, 2012
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. Blog Post

    See Here: 5/20/2010

    • Date: May 20, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="326" caption="Women employees in the Telephone and Telegraph Office which was located in the North Tower of the United States National Museum, now the Arts and Industries Building, from the time the building was opened in 1881, Through the window is the Syrian Sarcophagus brought to the United States in 1837 and intended for Andrew

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  23. Finding Aid

    SIA Acc. 04-029, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Office of the Associate Director, Facilities and Special Projects, Freer/Sackler Files, 1983-2003

    • Date: 1983 1983-2003
    • Creator: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Office of the Associate Director, Facilities and Special Projects
    • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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