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    Solomon G. Brown, Renaissance Man

    • Date: February 1, 2011
    • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. “I have engaged in almost Every Branch of work that is usual and unusual about S.I.”[edan-image:id=siris_sic_5597,size=150,left] These words, written by Solomon G. Brown to Secretary Spencer F. Baird on August 12,

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  3. Brassia caudata (Orchidaceae) watercolor by Regina O. Hughes, c. 1980, National Museum of Natural History, Catalog of Botanical Illustrations, Plate # 641.

    “Angels Can Do No More”: Regina Hughes’ Contributions as a Botanical Illustrator

    • Date: March 10, 2016
    • Description: This post discusses the contributions of Regina Hughes, a botanical illustrator, to the National Museum of Natural History.

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  5. A Pioneer Mammalogist: Viola Shelly Schantz

    • Date: March 19, 2013
    • Description: In honor of Women's History Month, here is a brief biography of sorts about Viola S. Schantz, a prominent mammalogist who worked for the U.S Fish & Wildlife Service from 1918-1961.

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  7. Black and white, slightly out of focus photograph of Lorentz and Einstein standing side by side out doors.

    Science Service, Up Close: Informal Moments

    • Date: May 8, 2018
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: Formal portrait photographs of scientists tend to preserve the stiffness of the moment, rather than capture the sitter’s personality. Perhaps that is the reason that candid photographs of celebrities like Albert Einstein stick in public memory.A 1931 photograph of three Nobel laureate physicists illustrates why we tend to remember the informal photos of scientists more than

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  9.  Varnell works on a clay project in a studio.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Kathleen Varnell

    • Date: September 15, 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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    Architect Victor Lundy at the Smithsonian

    • Date: February 1, 2013
    • Description: As the architect Victor Lundy turns 90, we look back at the redwood shade structures he designed in the mid-1960s for the terrace of the new Museum of History and Technology (today the National Museum of American History).

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  13. A woman presents an award to a man. They are shaking hands.

    Smithsonian Spotlight: Carmen E. Turner

    • Date: February 20, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: How does one climb from working as a clerk typist to being appointed second-in-command at the Smithsonian? Meet Carmen Turner.

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  15. Three men in mariachi outfits hold instruments and walk. They are wearing hats and their faces are painted.

    How Much is in That Terabyte?

    • Date: December 6, 2018
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: 2018 was a busy year for born-digital collections at the Archives

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    Passwords and Paper Printouts: Preserving the Electronic Records of the Devra Kleiman Papers

    • Date: July 28, 2011
    • Description: In the course of my internship at the Smithsonian Archives’ Digital Services Division I’ve worked with myriad digital records, converting both new material and past accessions into formats that can be more easily preserved. But the most exciting part of my time here came when I was given my very own accession, the Devra G. Kleiman Papers, to work on. My task was to copy all of

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    Mourning National Disaster at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

    • Date: January 28, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: When tragedy struck during the space shuttle era, mourners found a place to honor the fallen astronauts of the tragic Challenger and Columbia flights at Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

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  21. Weird and Wonderful: The Surprising Mrs. Hilda Hempl Heller

    • Date: May 16, 2013
    • Description: A brief look into the life of Hilda Hempl Heller – scientist and enthusiast of life.

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  23. Black and white photograph of SAO staff, including Nancy Prichard, then referenced to as Miss McCandlish, and Gladys T. Bond, referred to as Mrs. Bond.

    Early 20th-Century Women Computers at the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 12, 2021
    • Description: Learn about Florence A. Graves, Gladys Thurlby Bond, and Nancy Prichard, three 20th century women computers who advanced solar research.

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