To celebrate Volunteer Appreciation Month, we would like to recognize Marianne Green, a volunteer in the Digital Services Division who digitizes and reviews documents, letters, and photographs requested by researchers, helping provide access to our collections.

Explore our interns’ new techniques for preservation of maps at NMNH: a map transportation tool, a rehousing plan, and training for volunteers.

Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

Before the Archives gears up for new projects in 2019, we’re looking back at our accomplishments and highlights in 2018.

Wishing you the best in the coming year. Happy Holidays from all of us at the Archives!

Slide back through time by exploring historic Smithsonian spaces in these before-and-after shots 

A few attempts to roll back the color shift on faded prints from 1955

On national cookie day we take a moment to highlight all things technologically cookie.

From our table to yours, Happy Thanksgiving from the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

An unusually serious Halloween post in which we dress up to stage a mock recovery from a museum fire