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    1. 1888 Centennial Exposition of the Ohio Valley and Central States

      Reconstructing William Temple Hornaday’s 1888 Extermination Series

      • Date: March 2, 2017
      • Description: A look at taxidermist turned conservationist William Temple Hornaday's "Extermination Series" highlighting the environmental impact of man on North American mammals.

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    3. Route 66 runs through Winslow, Arizona. This corner is a tribute to the Eagles song, “Take It Easy.” The camera used included a date stamp. Photo by Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig.

      Making the Most of Vacation Memories

      • Date: June 24, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Summer means family vacations and making memories. Here are some ideas for before and during the trip.

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      The World Is Yours: Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives

      • Date: March 4, 2021
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: Take a listen to clips from the episode of The World Is Yours titled “Fashion Parade of Presidents’ Wives.”

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    7. One woman and two men view a wall in an exhibit at a museum. The wall appears to be made of stone.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Margaret Simmons Vining

      • Date: August 3, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Margaret Simmons Vining was a museum specialist and later curator of armed forces history at the National Museum of American History from 1983 until her death in 2018.In addition to curating major exhibitions and building the division’s collections, she founded and supervised the Smithsonian Archive of Women’s Military History. Together with her longtime collaborator and life

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    9. National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Day, September 4, 1977, by Richard Hofmeister, Accession 11-009, Smithsonian Photographic Services, Photographic Collection, 1971-2006, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 77-12428-2A.

      National Air and Space Frisbee Festival

      • Date: June 12, 2014
      • Description: A brief look into the 1977, 1978 and 1979 National Air and Space Museum Frisbee Festival held on the National Mall.

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      Fame ... By Any Other Name

      • Date: March 20, 2012
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: How social media has changed the ways that scientists, particularly women, can achieve fame in their respective fields.

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    13. Perros Dingo (Dingo Dogs), 1960s. Illustrations from the Barcelona Zoo Guide Book.

      International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part I

      • Date: June 13, 2017
      • Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.

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    15. Black and white image of African American woman holding her baby, looking out the window.

      Link Love: 4/13/2018

      • Date: April 13, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: What's changed, and hasn't — the Fair Housing Act 50 years later. [via National Museum of American History]A 1749 book, The Governess, advocated for female literacy when the literacy rate was 40% in England. [via Smithsonian Magazine]The Library of Congress has archival materials of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton and records on historical Supreme Court cases now

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    17. Bretzfelder works on an exhibit space diorama in an office. She is wearing bold, round, black glasses. She is holding up a piece of the diorama to examine.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborah M. Bretzfelder

      • Date: March 9, 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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    19. Fishing nets and a Giant Octopus hang from the ceiling of the Fisheries Exhibit in the U.S. National Museum.

      Fishing for Collections at the U.S. National Museum

      • Date: December 10, 2019
      • Description: Spencer F. Baird and George Brown Goode used their diverse, and sometimes quirky, contacts from the U.S. Fish Commission to fill exhibit cabinets in the U.S. National Museum.

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    21. Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2019

      • Date: September 26, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Here are some of the highlights of the research conducted this summer at SIA.

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      The Smithsonian’s First Radiometers

      • Date: April 25, 2019
      • Description: When curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History looked at seven radiometers in storage, they learned the instruments had been at the Smithsonian for nearly one hundred fifty years.

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