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      Into the Future

      • Date: January 21, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="196" caption="Pioneers to the Past, Exhibition catalogue, Image courtesy of The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago."][/caption] Archives now! The Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago has just opened an exhibition, Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-20, in a very interesting

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    3. A handwritten map. On a square box are tiny, labeled circles. The paper is dated 1992.

      Love a Tree (Every)Day

      • Date: May 16, 2019
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: On Love a Tree Day, the Archives discusses the Smithsonian's dedication to trees throughout the world.

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    5. Link Love: 9/6/2019

      • Date: September 6, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    7. Frank Thone and a "Square Deal" on Earth Day

      • Date: April 22, 2013
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A photo montage of a science journalist and a fly illustrates the man's sense of humor and attitudes toward nature.

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    9. Link Love: 10/26/2012

      • Date: October 26, 2012
      • 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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    11. Ruby K. Worner, Smithsonian Institution Archives. Image ID SIA2015-004747

      Science Service, Up Close: Ruby K. Worner

      • Date: November 12, 2015
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A look at the brilliant work and sharp insight of a trailblazing woman chemist, Ruby K. Worner.

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    13. Science Service, Up Close: Women in Geology and Paleontology

      • Date: March 14, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: To celebrate Women’s History Month, here are two examples of 20th-century women who applied their education and expertise in geology and paleontology outside traditional university career paths.

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    15. Portrait of Mildred Mott Wedel and Waldo Wedel

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen Jagodzinske

      • Date: December 28, 2016
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Archaeologist & ethnohistorian Mildred Mott Wedel was appointed Smithsonian research associate, 1974 and was the 1st woman to receive an anthropology fellowship from the University of Chicago. She often worked alongside her husband, Waldo Wedel, and their research on Plains Indians remains important today. #Groundbreaker

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      The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"

      • Date: July 14, 2011
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,

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    19. Black and white photo of Marjorie B. Illig, presenting a book to Jule Henry as Eleanor Roosevelt looks on.

      Science Service, Up Close: Journalists, Cancer Research, and Public Education

      • Date: March 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Cancer, James T. Patterson observed in The Dread Disease, serves as a powerful metaphor in American culture, where the malady mirrors the “manifestation of social, economic, and ideological divisions” in modern life. In the decades since publication of Patterson’s book, medical research has made great strides in methods of detection and treatment. But the challenge for science

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      Link Love: 5/20/2011

      • Date: May 20, 2011
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288" caption="Owney Embarks on his Makeover, photo courtesy of National Postal Museum, Pushing the Envelope blog."][/caption] Owney the Railway Mail Service dog is about to undergo conservation to improve his appearance and will be tweeting about the whole process on his very entertaining Twitter feed. You all know about our passion

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      Science Service, Up Close: Summer Road Trips for Science, 1935

      • Date: July 24, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In 1935, Beloit College in Wisconsin began allowing female students to join the annual summer archeological expeditions.

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