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The @Smithsonian Institution Archives, part of Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, collects, preserves, and shares Smithsonian history. Legal: https://t.co/3p8iMuJmM7
Washington, D.C.
Joined February 2014
Happy Birthday, Smithsonian! To mark the end of our #Smithsonian175 celebrations, we launched a brand-new digital exhibition—Smithson to Smithsonian. https://t.co/9dJrARLt10
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In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. helped organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. There, he would give his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. Jim Wallace captured this photo of the crowd that day. From @SmithsonianArch collections: https://t.co/zb7lLKH2ER
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Light. ☑️ Subject. ☑️Composition. ☑️ An unorthodox posture. ☑️☑️ On #NationalPhotographyDay, we celebrate the @smithsonian photographers who are willing to do anything for the shot. 📸: MAH-4460, MAH-4690, 96-927
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Happy 177th birthday to us! 🎂🥳 #OTD in 1846, the U.S. Senate passed the "Act to Establish the '@smithsonian Institution,' for the Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge among Men.” And yet, we don’t look a day over 131. 📸: 77-10604-12
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Wandering through wildflowers with Mary Vaux Walcott. Born #OTD in 1860, Walcott was a naturalist and artist. But her work was sometimes confused for her husband's, @Smithsonian Secretary Charles Walcott. Learn how we're using data science to uncover it: https://t.co/xk29XqArHG
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Moth-ing to see here, people—just some weird liquid, buckets, and a tropical biologist. In 1987, @stri_panama photographers captured these shots of Neal Griffith Smith at work on a study of Urania moths. More on Neal's research ➡️ https://t.co/pUiF7EWpg5
#MothWeek 🦋
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54 years ago today, the #Apollo11 mission gave us some of the solar system’s most famous photos. But they missed something major: crew member and future @airandspace director Michael Collins’ expert-level mugging for the camera. 📸🧑🚀🙃🙂 Not to worry: we've got the pics.
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Groundbreaking climate scientist Eunice Newton Foote was a collaborator of first @smithsonian Secretary Joseph Henry. ➡️ https://t.co/y2j2Q6y4I9 We wish we had a photo of her, but we'll settle for the Doodle.👩🔬
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Help us find a photograph of Eunice Newton Foote!
Today's #GoogleDoodle celebrates American scientist and women's rights activist, Eunice Newton Foote. Swipe through the slideshow to learn about how her scientific discovery laid the foundation for how we understand climate change today —> https://t.co/4A00LwELbI
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Meet three @nmnh scientists who fought for suffrage➡️ 🎨✍️Violet Dandridge, scientific illustrator: https://t.co/0ZSILpUlUV 🌿🪧Mary Agnes Chase, expert in grasses: https://t.co/EeSUCyTaQx 🩺🦟Evelyn G. Mitchell, entomologist & physician: https://t.co/tLWK0tXKzr
#SenecaFalls175
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Dr. Evelyn Groesbeeck Mitchell was an entomologist, medical doctor, passionate social reformer, and one of the most awe-inspiring figures I’ve encountered lately. Dr. Mitchell researched mosquitoes...
Violet Dandridge, Dr. Evelyn G. Mitchell, and Mary Agnes Chase were dedicated to their work at the Smithsonian and to the fight for women’s suffrage. Their stories reveal what it meant to many women to pursue careers and basic rights in the early 20th century. #19SuffrageStories
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☠️Our @SmithsonianArch conservator Nora Lockshin weighs in on a poison-laced ledger book with @SidedoorPod :
In the 1800s, William Bache traveled the U.S. creating silhouette portraits of all classes of people, which was unheard of then. With @smithsoniannpg & @SILibraries, we uncover his poison-laced ledger book that gives us a rare glimpse of early America. 🔊: https://t.co/Fc7UmKId0Y
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But the Walcotts’ fieldwork vacations were just the tip of the fossil mountain. To this day, the Walcott Quarry is still yielding new insights into the Cambrian Explosion. The digital exhibit by @ROMtoronto and @ParksCanada has more ➡️ https://t.co/UqVEYOhYUX
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When Mary Vaux married Charles in 1914, she was already a seasoned naturalist and botanical artist. (Soon, she’d have a mountain named after her.) As a member of the Walcott family, she started adding her photos and watercolors to the stream of fossils coming out of the quarry.
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If your dad was @smithsonian Secretary Charles D. Walcott, your family vacations rocked. 🪨 Helen, Charles, Sidney, and Benjamin spent summers digging up fossils in the Burgess Shale, a formation their dad discovered in the Canadian Rockies. #ArchivesVacay #ArchivesHashtagParty
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So long and thanks for all the fish. It's the last day of #WorldOceansMonth! This @SmithsonianArch photo was taken by Carl Hansen in 1989 at @stri_panama, where we've been doing groundbreaking research on tropical ecosystems for decades.🌊
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Big, small, or covered in pond scum, @Smithsonian photographers have always tested the limits of their equipment to get that perfect shot. @SmithsonianArch has great examples for #NationalCameraDay, like photographers Thomas Smillie & Kjell Sandved hard at work behind the lens.
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🤖 The pout on this Baker-Nunn camera wishes you a joyous #NationalCameraDay. In the 1950s and 1960s, @saoastro ran 12 tracking stations worldwide to monitor natural and artificial satellite activity. Each one had a Baker-Nunn camera. This frowner was based in Australia. 🇦🇺
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@SmithsonianFolk In just 2 days, the staff of @SmithsonianFolk - supply coordinators and all - will begin welcoming visitors to #2023Folklife. Mark your calendars for June 29–July 4 and July 6–9, and learn more at https://t.co/khU5nqNfXF! 📸: SIA-78-14296-07A
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The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an annual exposition of living cultural heritage on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
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A lot of work goes into creating a folklife festival: just ask Dorothy “Dot” Neumann. As @SmithsonianFolk supply coordinator in the 1970s, Dot made sure everyone got what they needed--including 12 unshorn sheep, 6 bushels of corn cobs, and one 78,000 pound continuous miner. 🐑🐑
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Join @smithsoniannmai, @nmaahc, @hirshhorn, @natasianart, @si_africanart , @nmnh, @SIGardens, @airandspace, and @amhistorymuseum all day AND late into the night on Saturday for sunny, free activities, including a Glow Night Arcade Party at our Arts & Industries Building.
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@smithsonian @NMNH On a trip to Galveston in 1941, Jones sent a postcard to Schultz—along with 56 Gambusia specimens caught from Little River in Milam County. Cornelius Scipio Jones died in 1944, but the fishes he collected are still in @nmnh collections! ➡️ https://t.co/gpfpyfWbxC
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@smithsonian @NMNH In 1930, Jones became a laborer for the Division of Fishes, working under curator Leonard P. Schultz. For Black employees @smithsonian in the early 20th century, “laborer” was a catch-all term: Jones worked on specimen preparation and collections management.
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