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    1. Black and white image of Austin Clark sitting at his desk, which is covered in piles of papers and marine life specimens.

      “Muse of Scientific Literature”: Leila Forbes Clark

      • Date: March 13, 2018
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In honor of Women’s History Month and the 50th anniversary of Smithsonian Libraries, let’s learn about Leila Gay Forbes Clark (1887-1964), the second woman to direct the Smithsonian’s library. She was beloved by the researchers she worked with (really loved in one case….) and began the restructuring of the many small libraries across the Smithsonian.

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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. October 3, 1958 Memorandum from J. Allen Hynek to Satellite Tracking Program Staff on the first anniversary of Sputnik, page 1.

      Right Places at the Right Time

      • Date: October 21, 2013
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: Recollections of the October 4, 1957, Sputnik I launch and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Satellite Tracking Program.

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    7. Press Preview invitation for the exhibition,

      Mac Salad and Two Scoops Rice

      • Date: May 14, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, the Archives takes a look back at the exhibition, "From Bentō to Mixed Plate: Americans of Japanese Ancestry in Multicultural Hawai’i."

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    9. Mr. Ikawa, Japanese astronomer

      Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

      • Date: May 1, 2013
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and the Smithsonian Institution Archives presents some images from their collections.

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    11. Close-up photo of Oris I. Sanjur.

      There's a new Acting Director at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute!

      • Date: September 10, 2020
      • Creator: Hannah Byrne
      • Description: A brief look at the history and attitudes towards women and Latin Americans at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute amplifies the significance of Dr. Oris I. Sanjur’s formal appointment as acting director in 2020.

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    13. Painting on a square canvas with a large black circle in the center with various triangular shapes inside

      Uta C. Merzbach: Smithsonian's First Curator of Mathematical Instruments

      • Date: March 22, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Uta C. Merzbach was the Smithsonian's first curator of mathematical instruments. She brought her field to life with unique presentations of mathematical concepts and computer history.

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    15. Cover of the supplementary material for March of Science, an episode of the radio program The World is Yours, issued January 15, 1940.

      The World is Yours: Smithsonian on the Radio

      • Date: June 8, 2017
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: The Smithsonian's "The World is Yours" series was one of the most successful educational radio programs of of the 1930s.

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      Helena M. Weiss

      • Date: February 5, 2020
      • Description: Helena M. WeissSmithsonian Institution Archives Oral History Collection, SIA009587As Smithsonian’s registrar for more than twenty years, Helena M. Weiss (1909-2004) had the extraordinary responsibility of recording and facilitating everything that came into and out of the United States National Museum (USNM). From bug specimens to the Hope Diamond, Weiss was in charge of

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      SIA Acc. 14-040, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2012-2013

      • Date: 2012 2012-2013
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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      See Here: 3/24/2011

      • Date: March 24, 2011
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="National Museum of Natural History physical anthropologists Lucille St. Hoyme (1924-2001), J. Lawrence Angel (1915-1986), and Thomas Dale Stewart (1901-1997) hold a seventeen and one half foot long beard found in a North Dakota attic, 1967, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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      SIA Acc. 17-165, Smithsonian Institution, Website Records, 2014-2015

      • Date: 2014 2014-2015
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution
      • Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives

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