April's designation as "Letter Writing Month" serves as an opportunity to reflect on changes from 150 years ago

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. & American history.

Longtime Archives volunteer Zoe Martindale retired this past February, after over twenty years of service.

Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery's Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Media Arts, Dr. Asma Naeem, was an attorney and public servant prior to studying art history, and researches the history of technology and the sensorial imagination of both artist and beholder. #Groundbreaker

See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

Opening of box containing Thomas Edison’s graphophone, the first talking machine to record the human voice on wax, deposited (sealed) at the Smithsonian Institution by Volta Laboratory in 1880-1881.

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. & American history.