1972 Festival of American Folklife, 1972, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Acc. 11-009, Image no. 72-6539-29.

Link Love: 6/28/2019

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.

This weekend’s truncated Smithsonian Folklife Festival will feature the musical culture of Washington, DC! [via WAMU]

The Smithsonian Channel’s new app challenges Earth-dwelling users to land on the moon. [via Smithsonian]

Apollo Photography Exhibit, National Air and Space Museum

The Smithsonian Transcription Center now supports digitized audio collections! [via SI Transcription Center]

The New York Times discusses the historic houses that have begun to tell the stories of the enslaved people who lived and worked there. [via New York Times]

The Museums in Strange Places podcast interviews two staff members of the SI Traveling Exhibition Service program Museum on Main Street. [via Museum on Main Street]

Browse “Educated and Enslaved,” the Library of Congress's new digital exhibition on Omar Ibn Said. [via Library of Congress]

Elephant seals have become Antarctic researchers! [via Ocean Portal]

Frank Talbot, by Minor-Penland, Laurie, 1990, Smithsonian Archives - History Div, 90-4105-12A.

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