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  1. An Airborne Adventure: Photographing a Tuskegee Airmen Plane

    • Date: January 19, 2012
    • Description: Learn about the Smithsonian Institution Archive photographer, Michael Barnes, and his experience photographing Tuskegee Airmen and one of their original training planes.

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  3. Dan Kimball adjusting the telescope at the Maria Mitchell Observatory prior to the eclipse.

    Lasting Consequences from Past Solar Eclipses

    • Date: August 22, 2017
    • Description: Solar eclipse trips can have lasting effects on an astronomy student’s life, as NASM’s David DeVorkin tells us about the 1970 Yale Observatory expedition and beach party to view an eclipse at Nantucket.

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  5. Barn owls, named 'Increase' and 'Diffusion,' living in the West Tower.

    Residents of a Different Feather

    • Date: April 24, 2012
    • Description: History of the many barn owls who have lived in the towers of the Smithsonian Institution Building, or "Castle."

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    See Here: 3/15/2011

    • Date: March 15, 2011
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="289" caption="In the hallways of the United States National Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History, every available foot of space is occupied by valuable collections housed carefully in metal covered cabinets to guard them from injury, 1936, by Unidentified photographer, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution

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    Photographic Opportunity

    • Date: December 10, 2009
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="172" caption="The Steiner Ambrotype, June 18, 1857, by Unidentified photographer, Ambrotype, National Air and Space Museum, Image ID: 2001-5358. "] [/caption] [caption id="" align="alignright" width="190" caption="First Launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 24, 1950, by U.S. Air Force, Gelatin silver print, National Air and Space

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  11. Hot Topics in Archival Research

    • Date: December 8, 2015
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  13. Unknown Mill

    So, What is it?

    • Date: June 21, 2016
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: In the process of scanning glass plate negatives, how do we determine what each image is when it comes with so little information attached?

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  15. Architectural Plan before rehousing.

    Wait, there are bigger map cases? An Intern's Journey in the Oversized Collections

    • Date: August 30, 2016
    • Description: At the end of Summer 2016, an overview of an intern's work in the archive's oversize collections in the map cases.

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  17. Taking a sample of mold.

    Conserving Archival Collections Suffering from Fungal Attack

    • Date: July 26, 2016
    • Description: This summer Visiting Professional Laura Wahl had the chance to learn more about how to respond to the problem of mold residues found on archival materials. The Smithsonian Affiliations’ Visiting Professionals Program allowed her to spend time at the Smithsonian Institution Archives’ conservation lab researching this topic.

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  19. Preservation of Executable Files

    • Date: July 24, 2012
    • Description: As archives begin to receive executable files, archives must think about if and how to preserve them so their content lasts.

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