The equipment, technology, and process that goes into digitizing field books, from an intern’s perspective.

Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Pierpont Langley at Quantico, Virginia, on the day of the test flight of Aerodrome No. 5 on the Potomac River, May 6, 1896, by Alexander Graham Bell.

A Happy 172nd Birthday to the Smithsonian! 

Curator of Craft Nora Atkinson, Smithsonian American Art Museum, researches the role of the handmade in modern culture and was responsible for bringing the large scale art of Burning Man to the nation's capital for the first time. #Groundbreaker

Stereo slides present unique challenges for digitization. Here are a few tips for documenting your collection.

Lay figure group depicting Captain John Smith trading for corn with the Powhatan Indians at the Jamestown Exposition, Norfolk, Virginia, 1907.

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.

Ellen Roney Hughes’ supposition in 1999 was “Well, I think it’s still a man’s world at the Smithsonian.” This may hold some validity due to recent discoveries at the Smithsonian.