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      Mary Vaux Walcott’s Wild Flowers

      • Date: March 26, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: In the 1920s, Mary Vaux Walcott published five volumes of her wildflower drawings and donated the proceeds to the Smithsonian.

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      Archives Puzzles: Walcott’s Wild Flowers

      • Date: November 30, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Have a little fun with images from 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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    5. Digital contact sheet that includes 12 photographs of Jones standing in front of the Smithsonian Castle. He is wearing a suit. He looks directly toward the camera and slightly off into the distance in various photographs.

      The Life and Legacy of Alphonso Lorenzo Jones

      • Date: February 17, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Alphonso Lorenzo Jones joined the Smithsonian in 1924 as a mechanic. He retired 41 years later as the chief of the Institution’s duplicating office.

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    7. World Watercolor Month at the Smithsonian

      • Date: July 22, 2021
      • Creator: Tatiana Swann
      • Description: We’re taking a look at the various watercolors the Smithsonian Institution has collected both past and present, highlighting the diversity in artists, technique, unique painting effect, and versatility to create anything from insects to cityscapes.

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      Documenting a Life of One’s Own

      • Date: March 24, 2022
      • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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    11. Mounting Photographs with Earth Magnets

      • Date: May 7, 2013
      • Description: A photograph of Charles Greeley Abbot belonging to the Smithsonian Archives was in need of conservation. The photograph is stable, but the board to which the photograph is mounted is broken into three pieces. The board was stabilized and placed into a new housing constructed with rare earth magnets to impose a slight pressure on the object. The new housing holds the object

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    13. Portrait photograph of Mariah Wahl. She has shoulder-length hair and is wearing a dark-colored top. She is standing in front of a door.

      Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

      • Date: September 14, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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    15. The Last of Mr. Lincoln

      • Date: October 4, 2012
      • Creator: Mary Markey
      • Description: A file in the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ accession records tells the story of an historic piece of Lincoln memorabilia that didn't wind up in the Smithsonian’s collections.

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    17. Rolling Up Our Cardigans with Record Unit 95

      • Date: June 4, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Thanks to a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women’s Committee, the Archives will digitize, catalog, and make available 7,500 historic photographs of the Smithsonian from Record Unit 95.

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    19. Dick Benson, March 1975, by Kjell Sandved

      Sandved and his Snapshots

      • Date: April 4, 2013
      • Description: Kjell Bloch Sandved worked as a photographer for the National Musuem of Natural History for 32 years and his Photographic Files captured the Museum’s staff at work in 1975.

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    21. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

      Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

      • Date: October 24, 2019
      • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
      • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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    23. User scrolls down the page for the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Twitter in 2014.

      #AskAnArchivist 2020: Sharing From Home

      • Date: October 8, 2020
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: You asked. We answered. On October 7, 2020, six Archives staff members were excited and ready to answer questions on Twitter and Instagram for #AskAnArchivist Day.

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