Ratibor Hartmann with a Raccoon, 10 March 1949, by Alexander Wetmore, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 9516, Image no. SIA2010-1169.

Link Love: 5/1/2020

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.

Free webinars!?!?? For Preservation Week!!!!!!??? Is there anything else to say? [via Library of Congress]

If you have a hankering to identify raccoons, check out Science Friday’s round-up of Citizen Science Month projects. [via Science Friday

.

Explore the British Museum from home with their newly-launched digital collections database! [via infoDOCKET]

Dust off your turntable for Citizen DJ, this summer's hottest drop from the Library of Congress. [via WAMU]

The New-York Historical Society is sharing a weekly historical recipe to challenge the contemporary at-home cook. [via New York Times

.

The Louis Armstrong House Museum will now come to your house in the form of virtual exhibits. [via Washington Post]

Gerbils were the vanguard for a new wave of museums for pets. [via Hyperallergic]

Produced by the Smithsonian Institution Archives. For copyright questions, please see the Terms of Use.