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    1. Black and white photo of a young Margaret Collins sitting at a lab bench with a microscope in front of her.

      Margaret Collins: Scholar, Civil Rights Activist, and Mentor

      • Date: March 27, 2018
      • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
      • Description: During this Women’s History Month, the Smithsonian Transcription Center has been highlighting projects from women around the Smithsonian. Among these women is Margaret Collins, a pioneering scientist and civil rights activist. While her fieldwork has been written about previously, that is clearly just one part of a full and distinguished career.Collins’ interest in science

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    3. Portrait of woman, standing in front of a backdrop, wearing a long dress with large sleeves.

      The Woman Behind the Camera

      • Date: March 28, 2019
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: A closer look at Smithsonian's first woman photographer, Louisa Bernie Gallaher.

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      An ‘Intern’duction to Storage of Oversized Archival Collections

      • Date: January 12, 2016
      • Description: I was recently given the opportunity to work as a Collections Care Intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives for the months of November and December 2015, under the supervision and partnership of the Archives’ Collections Care Team. During my short time here, I worked on two parallel projects focused on surveying, preserving, and treating oversized archival collections:

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    7. Zoidis stands in front of a Star-Spangled Banner exhibit.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Zoidis

      • Date: December 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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    9. Robert Ridgway, 1873. Record Unit 95 - Photograph Collections, 1850s- , Smithsonian Institution Archives. Neg. no. SIA2008-4347.

      Meet Robert Ridgway, Ornithologist and Artist

      • Date: January 14, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: An introduction to Robert Ridgway, curator of birds at the United States National Museum from 1869-1929.

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      What We Are Working On: Digital Preservation

      • Date: May 29, 2018
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently acquired and accessioned digital records from Smithsonian Exhibits. Smithsonian Exhibits, Exhibition Records, circa 2000-2016, SIA 18-150 is an exciting collection that documents the design of exhibitions for Smithsonian museums and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). SITES offers exhibitions to other

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    13. Blue-tinted photograph of people working at a construction site.

      Archives Puzzles: Constructing the National Museum of Natural History

      • Date: September 7, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: This summer, have a little fun with images from our collections that have been designated as open access. Anyone can now download, transform, share, and reuse millions of images as part of Smithsonian Open Access.

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    15. Smithsonian’s National Zoo Andean Bear cubs, Mayni (L) and Muniri (R), by Abby Wood, March 19, 2015, National Zoo.

      Link Love: 3/27/2015

      • Date: March 27, 2015
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    17. Soviet soil scientist and geologist Vladimir Vasilievich Gemmerling, Director, Soil Department of the Fertilizer Institute, Moscow State University. He was an official delegate to the First International Congress of Soil Science, Washington, D.C., June 1927, and is shown on board an excursion boat. Accession 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives, image no. SIA2008-1869.

      Science Service, Up Close: A Slow Boat Down the River

      • Date: June 18, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Watson Davis photographed visiting scientists on a June 1927 Potomac River boat trip to Mount Vernon.

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    19. Takashi and Kumi Sugiura smile at one another as they hold up art and fabric.

      Smithsonian Spotlight: Takashi Sugiura

      • Date: May 5, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Between 1953 and 1980, Japanese conservator Takashi Sugiura restored and mounted Japanese works at the Freer Gallery of Art.

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    21. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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    23. Christine Smith and Gary Sturm Ice Dancing, 1981, by Dane Penland, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Neg. No. 80-19963-36.

      Skating Smithsonian

      • Date: February 6, 2014
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: You don’t have to go to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia to learn about ice dancing. Check out the Smithsonian ice dancers who used the sport as a great way to unwind and stay warm in the winter.

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