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    Cabinet of Curiosities

    • Date: September 7, 2010
    • Creator: Sarah Stauderman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_8083" align="aligncenter" width="336" caption="The mysterious cabinet of curiosities with assorted film cameras perched on top, 2010, by Michael Barnes, SIA."][/caption] Last fall a piece of furniture showed up in the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) reception area. Aside from a few nicks, it is a large, handsome cabinet with drawers and double

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    Mapping the Moon

    • Date: May 19, 2009
    • Description: Though photographs are accepted as subjective but ultimately faithful visual reproductions of reality, in many instances they don’t correspond to our experience. Pupils don’t regularly glint red, and people don’t transform into the streaked, evanescent smears we so often witness in photos. Yet we have no trouble accepting these inconsistencies, knowing that taking a picture of

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    AVInsider: VanCamp

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      See Here: 7/27/2010

      • Date: July 27, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="329" caption="DeCarlo Wiley, National Air and Space Museum guard and Smithsonian basketball team guard, 1978, by Susan Foster, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2 Folder April 1978, Negative Number: 94-2879."][/caption]

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      See Here: 11/8/2010

      • Date: November 8, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="Smithsonian's pilot aluminum-can recycling program started early in February 1990. Forty-four containers like the one pictured were placed at the National Museum of American History (NMAH), National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), National Air and Space Museum, and the Museum Support Center, 1989, by Jeff Tinsley,

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      See Here: 6/24/2010

      • Date: June 24, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Israel's Shimon Peres and Vice President George Herbert Walker Bush looking at the National Air and Space Museum's World War II memorabilia with NASM Deputy Director Donald Lopez during a brief visit in September 1986, by Mark Avino, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder:

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      See Here: 8/5/2010

      • Date: August 5, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="The Apollo 11 Command Module just fitting through the doors of the Arts and Industries Building as it is being moved out to go to the soon to open National Air and Space Museum, August 26, 1975, by Richard Farrar, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95 Box 32 Folder 32, Negative Number:

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      See Here: 6/28/2010

      • Date: June 28, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="414" caption=""Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM), The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland,

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    • An 8 inch floppy disk.

      How Computers Took Off at the National Air and Space Museum: 1980-1981

      • Date: December 1, 2016
      • Description: A look at a survey of computer usage at the National Air and Space Museum in 1980.

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      Louis Purnell, Airman and Curator

      • Date: February 22, 2011
      • Creator: Courtney Bellizzi
      • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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      See Here: 10/20/2010

      • Date: October 20, 2010
      • Creator: The Bigger Picture
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Actor Gene Kelly (l.) while being filmed at National Museum of American Historys After the Revolution exhibit on December 4, 1985 for a 90-minute production called American Treasure - A Smithsonian Journey, that was to air in March, 1986, 1985, by Jeff Tinsley, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    • Creating a barrier between the non-archival tube and the collections material.

      Pennywise Preservation: Oversized Prints and Drawings

      • Date: December 13, 2016
      • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
      • Description: Providing suitable housing for collections can sometimes be cost-prohibitive. When the Archives received a large collection of oversized drawings, a cost-savings approach had to be employed while still achieving an appropriate housing strategy for long-term preservation.

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