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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Marilyn Graskowiak

      • Date: December 23, 2020
      • 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. a progression of 3 images of a brightly lit, round field of light with a dark hole in the middle and a ray of light projecting upwards.

      Link Love: 3/16/2018

      • Date: March 16, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Apparently black holes are not a one-way vortex we assumed. This image from NASA demonstrates objects projecting out of black holes! [via The Space Academy]The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History will acquire records of The Academy of Washington, D.C., an LGBT organization that produced nationally-recognized drag pageants. [via Washington Blade]You can vote on

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      Sifting Through Archives and Snooping Through Desks

      • Date: April 27, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="241" caption="Walt Whitman, 1883 ,by Unidentified photographer, Albumen silver print, 14.3 cmx10.1 cm, National Portrait Gallery, Image No.

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    7. 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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    9. Dr. Slosson lecturing to prisoners at the Laramie Penitentiary.

      Open Minds Open Doors

      • Date: March 15, 2012
      • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
      • Description: The life and achievements of May (Mary) Gorslin Preston Slosson, one of the first women to receive a PhD.

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      The Smithsonian Institution in the 1884 New Orleans World’s Fair

      • Date: October 3, 2017
      • Description: It does not take long for today’s visitors to one of the Smithsonian Institution’s nineteen museums to find themselves engulfed within the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex. The flood of world’s fairs in the late nineteenth century played a central role in placing the Smithsonian en route to that unparalleled distinction. The New Orleans World’s

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    13. Field Work and a World War

      • Date: July 12, 2012
      • Description: An examination of some of the field books of Bohumil Shimek, who documented the effects of WWI while doing research in Europe.

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