Roxie Laybourne and Carla Dove Holding Black Vulture Remains, 1996. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 04-086, Image no. SIA2014-07411.

Link Love: 10/9/2020

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.

Roxie Laybourne is the star of the National Audubon Society’s latest feature! [via Audubon]

Roxie Laybourne and Carla Dove Holding Black Vulture Remains

DCist profiles Kevin Young, the next director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via DCist]

A new grant-funded project hopes to create more complete histories with the nation’s public monuments. [via Hyperallergic]

Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are hot on the trail of the Great American Biotic Interchange! [via New York Times Science]

Jeopardy! scion Ken Jennings shares his thoughts about naturalist scion Alexander von Humboldt. [via Smithsonian Voices

The National Women’s Party will donate the rest of its historic collections on the suffrage movement to the Library of Congress and the National Parks Service. [via Library of Congress]

Catch the Sunshine State Digital Network’s three-part series on reparative redescription and metadata editing! [via Sunshine State Digital Network]

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