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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Isabel C. Pérez Farfante

    • Date: September 1, 2021
    • 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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  3. Taking a sample of mold.

    Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

    • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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  5. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

    Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

    • Date: May 26, 2016
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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  7. Page that includes a coloring page featuring an exhibit space at the US National Museum. A humpback whale and cast is featured at the center.

    Color Our Collections 2021

    • Date: February 4, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Stuck inside and looking for a fun activity? Color the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives collections!

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    Museum Computer Network and the Smithsonian Institution: The Vision

    • Date: April 13, 2017
    • Description: In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Museum Computer Network, this first blog explores the early interactions of MCN with the Smithsonian.

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    Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

    • Date: September 13, 2016
    • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
    • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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  13. Summer In The City

    • Date: June 27, 2017
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: A before-and-after look at the the entrances and rotundas around the Smithsonian.

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  15. Portrait of Carmichael. He is wearing a suit with a white handkerchief sticking out of the front pocket. He has a mustache. He is not smiling.

    Leonard Carmichael, Seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian

    • Date: July 7, 2022
    • Creator: Tatiana Swann
    • Description: Dr. Leonard Carmichael led the Smithsonian Institution through many changes during his tenure as the seventh Secretary of the Smithsonian. He presided over new museums and facility openings, special acquisitions, and exciting exhibitions. Because Carmichael was hired from outside of the Smithsonian, he brought a new perspective, his academic background, and skills to thrust

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  17. In a series of four negative images, men and women are pictured clapping and speaking.

    Spreading a Little Kindness Here at Smithsonian

    • Date: November 13, 2018
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Couldn’t we all use a little more warmth and kindness in the world? For World Kindness Day, we’re highlighting acts of kindness by Smithsonian employees that were featured in the staff newsletter, "The Torch."

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    The Spinthariscope and the Smithsonian

    • Date: January 9, 2018
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_287602,size=250,left]As a child in England in the 1930s, Oliver Sacks enjoyed playing with his Uncle Abe’s spinthariscope. It was, he would later recall, “a beautifully simple instrument, consisting of a fluorescent screen and a magnifying eyepiece, and inside, an infinitesimal speck of radium.We take a look at the spinthariscope at the Smithsonian.

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  21. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: October 4, 2018
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  23. Cortege Bringing James Smithson Remains to Smithsonian, 1904, Record Unit 95, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 82-3337.

    Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: October 9, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Topics researched at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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