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Join the Archives of American Art and the Smithsonian Transcription Center throughout the next year as we celebrate the Smithsonian's 175th birthday! Explore the lives and worlds of 175 different US art world figures on their birthdays, one for each year since the Smithsonian's founding in 1846. Who was born on this day? In 1848, Frank Duveneck.
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At Harvard College Observatory (now the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian), women computers studied glass plate photographs of the night sky. Here they catalogued stars, identifying variables, interpreting stellar spectra, counting galaxies, and measuring the vast distances in space. Several of them made game-changing discoveries in astronomy and astrophysics.
anjali b transcribed a page from Tennessee Assistant Commissioner, Records Relating to Abandoned Property, Leases, Knox–Shelby Counties, Part 2
Kay Steff transcribed a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, B, Mar.–Oct. 1865, Part 2
anjali b transcribed a page from Tennessee Assistant Commissioner, Records Relating to Abandoned Property, Leases, Knox–Shelby Counties, Part 2
Farrukh Anwar transcribed a page from Tennessee Assistant Commissioner, Records Relating to Abandoned Property, Leases, Knox–Shelby Counties, Part 2
kikibird2007 reviewed a page from Registers and Letters Received by the Commissioner, Letters Received, Entered in Register 1, A, Mar.–Oct. 1865
Vamika marked for review a page from Tennessee Assistant Commissioner, Records Relating to Abandoned Property, Leases, Knox–Shelby Counties, Part 2
Derek Shadrick transcribed a page from Log of the proceedings of H. M. S. Comus
