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  1. Portrait of a woman wearing a nurses uniform that includes a small, white hat. A white building with tall columns is in the background.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Verdine J. Frederick

    • Date: July 21, 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. Mitch in his holiday sweater.

    Ch-ch-ch-changes, 2015 edition!

    • Date: November 5, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: It is with sadness that I report that Mitch Toda is stepping down as the blog coordinator. Since 2011, Mitch Toda has been the man behind-the-scenes making sure everything runs smoothly. As a staff archivist, he works daily with the records he takes in from Smithsonian museums and offices such as the new National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Office of

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    Archives Puzzles: Memorial Day

    • Date: May 31, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This Memorial Day, try to put together puzzles from images in 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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    How Computers Took Off at the National Air and Space Museum: 1980-1981

    • Date: December 1, 2016
    • Description: A look at a survey of computer usage at the National Air and Space Museum in 1980.

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    Gender Discrimination at the Smithsonian Institution

    • Date: August 6, 2019
    • Description: A complete history of the Smithsonian Institution includes stories of employment discrimination. Here is one woman who demanded change.

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  11. Happy Birthday, Smithsonian Magazine!

    • Date: April 21, 2015
    • Creator: Jennifer Wright
    • Description: A look back at the first issue of Smithsonian Magazine for its 45th anniversary.

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  13. Topographics

    • Date: December 28, 2009
    • Description: In 1975 The George Eastman House in Rochester, NY opened a small exhibition titled “New Topographics: Photographs Of A Man Altered Landscape,” that changed the way we think about photography and the art of landscape. While it launched a new photographic style and conceptual framework for a traditional artistic genre, it also re-affirmed photography’s powerful ability to

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  15. Photo courtesy of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.

    Link Love: 11/6/2015

    • Date: November 6, 2015
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: The George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will have a prominent home on Chicago's gorgeous lakefront. The museum will house Lucas's private art and memorabilia collections, which includes Star Wars and Indiana Jones ephemera, Norman Rockwell paintings, and movie posters. [via Wired] Who knew? Actors who got their start in government films! A weekly feature of archive & museum

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  17. Middlegate Japanese Gardens, Pass Christian, Mississippi.

    Link Love: 8/26/2011

    • Date: August 26, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: How photos from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Gardens help preserve the memory of gardens (such as the Middlegate Japanese Gardens pictured above) that are now gone. The Museum of the Future has a great roundup of videos and blogs about museums, technology, and media. An update on earthquake damage at the Smithsonian, and hear Smithsonian Secretary (and earthquake

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    Link Love: 10/29/2010

    • Date: October 29, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  21. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

    The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

    • Date: September 3, 2019
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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    Tomorrow is the “Ask the Smithsonian” Q&A on Facebook

    • Date: October 11, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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