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    Maria Mitchell and the Smithsonian

    • Date: June 14, 2018
    • Description: On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her “the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.” Some

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    Link Love: 5/22/2020

    • Date: May 22, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: 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.

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    Link Love: 5/20/2011

    • Date: May 20, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="288" caption="Owney Embarks on his Makeover, photo courtesy of National Postal Museum, Pushing the Envelope blog."][/caption] Owney the Railway Mail Service dog is about to undergo conservation to improve his appearance and will be tweeting about the whole process on his very entertaining Twitter feed. You all know about our passion

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    The Inhabitants of "Defense Mansion"

    • Date: July 14, 2011
    • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
    • Description: This post is the second in a series this month that honors the anniversary of the famous Scopes Trial, held in Tennessee from July 10–21, 1925, and highlights a set of rare and newly digitized photographs, from the Smithsonian Institution Archives, of witnesses at the trial collections, which have been added to the Smithsonian Flickr Commons. In tone, composition, and setting,

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    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Deborra Richardson

    • Date: December 16, 2020
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    Link Love: 2/11/2011

    • Date: February 11, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Link Love: 6/1/2018

    • Date: June 1, 2018
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: A graphic designer's delight — a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt explores color perception. [via Smithsonian Libraries]33 museums from 7 countries, including our own Smithsonian Archives of American Art, have produced the largest collection of Frida Kahlo art and ephemera with Google Arts & Culture. [via Remezcla]A key figure in LGBQT activism who organized the first pride

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    Link Love: 9/22/2017

    • Date: September 22, 2017
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Photographer Jeanine Michna-Bales reconstructed the daunting Underground Railroad route in pictures. [via Smithsonian Magazine]Teachers! Incredible footage, objects, and images of WWI from the Library of Congress, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the National WWI Museum and Memorial, in the new app, Remembering WWI. [via History Pin] Save the date for

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    I Read Dead People’s Mail: Mysteries of the Darwin Letter

    • Date: June 28, 2016
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: How a 30-year old theft was solved, but one mystery remained.

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    Link Love: 3/1/2019

    • Date: March 1, 2019
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: 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.

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    Save the Silver!

    • Date: September 4, 2012
    • Description: During the Civil War, Solomon G. Brown protected valuables from the approaching Confederate Army.

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    See Here: 1/27/2011

    • Date: January 27, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Color postcard of the East African lions in the mammal hall of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History, pre 1959, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 45, Folder 26, Negative Number: SIA2010-0488."][/caption]

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