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.

Take a listen to clips from an episode of The World Is Yours.

Correspondence between Science Service reporter Frank Thone and Pulitzer prize-winning political cartoonist Jay Norwood (“Ding”) Darling highlight the evolving wildlife conservation efforts of the 1920s-1940s.

Behind the seemingly objective certitude of a date lies an argument about what counts.

Frank Hamilton Cushing, ethnologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, demonstrates horse riding technique of a Dakota warrior.

A keeper feeds Asian elephants Hitam and Kechil in the octagonal elephant barn at the National Zoological Park, 1918.

See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

Cyanotype, Riker Electric Mail Wagon vehicle for exhibition by Post Office Department at Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901.

Young museum visitors with horse and carriage outside the United States National Museum, now known as the Arts and Industries Building, Washington, D.C., circa 1910s.

Rotunda of the United States National Museum Natural History Building, now known as National Museum of Natural History, 1913.