Richard C. Froeschner with Insect Specimens, 1975, by Kjell Bloch Sandved, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Image no. SIA2013-03930.

Link Love: 2/7/2020

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.
February 7, 2020, by Deborah Shapiro

Help the Library of Congress transcribe Rosa Parks’ personal papers! [via infoDOCKET]

Astronaut Christina Koch has returned to Earth after the longest ever spaceflight by a woman! [via Guardian Science]

Web archive practitioners are making sure nobody will forget Geocities. [via Vice] 

Wilma Riley Paints Exhibit Mural, 1978, Smithsonian Institution Archives, SIA RU000371 [94-8335].

The Washington Post profiles Alice Tangerini, a botanical illustrator at the National Museum of Natural History. [via Washington Post]

Try the Beinecke Library’s daily Paleographical Challenge. [via Beinecke Library] 

Richard C. Froeschner with Insect Specimens

London's Natural History Museum wants you to put their bugs in your art. [via NMH London]

Don't have art to put their bugs in? Make some art with these coloring pages. [via Smithsonian]

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