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    1. Portrait photograph of a woman wearing a necklace of of Brazilian beetles set in gold.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Beets

      • Date: December 11, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Virginia Beets was instrumental in the early years of the National Museum of American History as an Administrative Officer, 1963–73, and Registrar, 1973–83. She initially joined the Smithsonian as a secretary in the Division of Insects at the National Museum of Natural History in 1949. #Groundbreaker

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Virginia Outwin Boochever

      • Date: July 11, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Virginia Outwin Boochever, who endowed the National Portrait Gallery's portrait competition, became one of the first female commissioned officers in the Navy WAVES, and was a volunteer at the gallery for 19 years bringing the museum experience to retirement homes. #Groundbreaker

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      Neither Snow nor Rain: a West Virginia Post Office in the Smithsonian

      • Date: September 13, 2016
      • Creator: Patrick Milhoan
      • Description: [view:sia_slideshow==71908]By the late 1960s, curators at the National Museum of History and Technology (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History, were focusing on how to present aspects of the American experience to visitors of the museum in different ways. Instead of using "sterile techniques which have too frequently given visitors the false impression that all

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    7. Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907

      Sneak Peek 8/6/2018

      • Date: August 6, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907, SIA Acc. 11-006, MAH-21539.

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      Unlocking the History of the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute

      • Date: October 9, 2018
      • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
      • Description: A couple of months ago, a few members of the Archives staff went out to the Smithsonian Conversation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Virginia, to collect some records that are being accessioned into our collections. One of the items we were given on this trip was a book detailing the facilities located on the property in Front Royal prior to it being used by the

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    11. Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, May 6, 1896

      Sneak Peek 8/13/2018

      • Date: August 13, 2018
      • Creator: Marguerite Roby
      • Description: Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, by Alexander Graham Bell, MAH-18836.

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      The Day the Earth Did Not Stand Still

      • Date: August 19, 2021
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Where were you when the central Virginia 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck?

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      Science Service, Up Close: John Clavon Norman, Jr. – Pathbreaking Cardiac Surgeon and Researcher

      • Date: August 23, 2018
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_arc_395101,size=300,left]When Harvard Medical School distributed these photographs of John Clavon Norman, Jr., M.D. (1930-2014) to news services in the 1960s, Dr. Norman was at an exciting stage of his career. The young physician had already made quite a journey, but there would be even more paths to blaze. He had been born in West Virginia to parents who

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    17. Painting of the Corcoran Gallery, now the Renwick Gallery, in the winter. People in winter overcoats stroll in front of the building.

      Link Love: 2/21/2020

      • Date: February 21, 2020
      • 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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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Leila Gay Forbes Clark

      • Date: April 10, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Leila Gay Forbes Clark, director of Smithsonian’s library, 1942–1957, was the second woman to direct the library at the Smithsonian. She led early efforts to create a more centralized library system. In 1952, she coauthored The Butterflies of Virginia with her husband, zoologist Austin Hobart Clark. #Groundbreaker

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    21. Mary Rice standing in front of a laboratory building at the Smithsonian Marine State at Fort Pierce.

      Science Conversations in the Shenandoah

      • Date: September 6, 2018
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In February 1975, twenty Smithsonian scientists gathered at the National Zoo's Conservation Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia to talk about their research and the future of science at the Smithsonian.

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      Wipe That Grin Off Your Face!

      • Date: June 2, 2009
      • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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