Visitors in the Apollo to the Moon Gallery at National Air and Space Museum, 1978, Richard K. Hofmeister, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Image no. 78-1867-09.

Link Love: 7/12/2019

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.
July 12, 2019, by Deborah Shapiro

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CityLab published an obituary for Phil Freelon, architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. [via CityLab] 

A new exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery sheds light on prominent American women of the nineteenth century. [via Smithsonian]

Portrait of a woman sitting. She is wearing a bonnet. The image is framed in an orange oval inside a

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the moon landing, the National Air and Space Museum will project the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument. [via DCist]

Also in celebration of the moon landing anniversary, WAMU highlights the Space Window at the National Cathedral. [via WAMU]

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The New York Times describes pilot projects underway in Newport, RI to preserve historic structures threatened by climate change. [via New York Times]

This week's heavy rain destroyed a “segregation wall” in Arlington that has been used to illustrate the legacy of Jim Crow. [via Greater Greater Washington] 

A visit to the Rockville Memorial Library is part of the “D.C. Dream Day” of one of the stars of the U.S. women's national soccer team! [via Washington Post]

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