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      Collaboration’s Value in the Pursuit of Science and Peace

      • Date: September 19, 2019
      • Creator: Ricc Ferrante
      • Description: Advancing peace requires a strong, wide, and active network.

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    3. Performance appraisal form, 1933. Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. SIA2015-000192.

      Rate This!

      • Date: October 16, 2014
      • Creator: Ellen Alers
      • Description: A look back at historic performance appraisal forms.

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    5. Portrait photograph of Ellen Lupton in a large frame.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Lupton

      • Date: August 12, 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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      Mapping the Moon

      • Date: May 19, 2009
      • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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    9. 2 visitors observe large head-shaped sculpture with horizontal bands and projection of older visitor

      Link Love: 12/15/2017

      • Date: December 15, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Artist Mathew Mohr has created a 14-foot interactive sculpture that creates projections of visitor's faces! [via Colossal]The Library of Congress has added 64 films for free streaming to their National Film Registry. [via Info Docket]Conservators are using light in the form of Reflectance Transformation Imaging to find Isaac Newton's doodles on the walls of childhood home.

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      Call for Entries! Women’s History Month

      • Date: March 2, 2009
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month, we invite you to submit your photo and story about how photography both shapes and reflects women’s lives and accomplishments. Starting on March 8th, International Women's Day, we will also be featuring photographs of women scientists on the Smithsonian Flickr Commons photostream. We hope that these photos of women scientists and our

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    13. Two ruby slippers with an FBI badge and single red sequin in between the slippers.

      Link Love: 9/7/2018

      • Date: September 7, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • 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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    15. Side by side comparison of Infobox on Wikipedia for Mary Agnes Chase (left) and Google Search results showing same data (right).

      Improve #WomenInSTEM Representation with Wikidata!

      • Date: July 18, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: We're ready to take our women in science to the next level! I hope botanist Mary Agnes Chase would be proud.This journey started with our history of science and the media research fellow, Marcel LaFollette, who created basic records for female scientists she uncovered in the Archives' Science Service collection, including many who worked at the Smithsonian. We then created a

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      Magical Mystery Tour

      • Date: December 29, 2010
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Recently, I read some interesting news about the National Public Radio blog, “The Picture Show,” that explores photographic images and issues.

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      Just what is an archives, anyway?

      • Date: October 5, 2010
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: This month, the Smithsonian Institution Archives, along with many other archives across the Smithsonian and around the nation, will be celebrating American Archives Month. The purpose of this celebration is "to raise awareness about the value of archives and archivists." We write a lot about what an archivist does on this blog, but, for those of you who don't know and are

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      Illegible, She Wrote

      • Date: May 16, 2011
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="A Penmanship sign was located in Boerum Hill and was painted in 1997. It was a faux billboard created by Jerry Johnson of Orange Outdoor Advertising, Photo by Bosc d'Anjou, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] A week or so ago, I was looking through documents scanned by the Smithsonian Institution

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    23. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

      • Date: April 8, 2014
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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