Lincoln Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA), 1978, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Image no. 92-1776.

Link Love: 4/3/2020

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. 
April 3, 2020, by Deborah Shapiro

If you can’t be an astronaut, be an astronautic supporter: help transcribe the Sally K. Ride Papers. [via National Air and Space Museum]

Ocean conservation efforts provide reason for optimism. [via Guardian] 

Blue Whale in the "Life in the Sea Exhibit," National Museum of Natural History

Thanks to Open Access, your teleconference backdrop can be a painting from the Smithsonian American Art Museum! [via Smithsonian]

Help the National Library of Medicine build its COVID-19 web archive. [via National Library of Medicine]

The Folger Shakespeare Library opens up its audio and video recordings for easy listening at home. [via infoDOCKET]

Test your art history knowledge with one of the Guardian’s great British museum art quizzes. [via Ashmolean Museum]

Lincoln Gallery of the National Collection of Fine Arts (NCFA)

Archivists and public historians tell the story of New York City during the 1918 flu epidemic. [via New York Times]

The Getty challenges the public to reenact works of art from home. [via Hyperallergic]

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