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  1. Blog Post

    Empress Cixi: Scanned and Discovered

    • Date: June 3, 2010
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  3. Portrait photograph of Mariah Wahl. She has shoulder-length hair and is wearing a dark-colored top. She is standing in front of a door.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: September 14, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Meet the newest members of the Archives team in our continuing series on introducing new staff.

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  5. Speak Softly . . .

    • Date: November 3, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: This summer witnessed an exciting find by interns Shereen Choudhury and Rachel Midura, who identified Teddy Roosevelt in one of the broken glass plate negatives they were inventorying. This glass plate comes from a collection of images that have all been numbered, but have minimal descriptive records indicating what they may represent.

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  7. Portrait of James Smithson.

    Hungerford Family Visits the Smithsonian

    • Date: August 27, 2019
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: In July 2019, the Hungerfords, descendants of James Smithson’s mother’s family visited the Smithsonian and got to see a new Hungerford document.

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  9. Link Love: 9/20/2019

    • Date: September 20, 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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  11. A gray line drawing on a white field depicts four views of a box: at top left, a view from above showing the document and a support tube in the lower tray of the box; at bottom left, a cross-section view of the same; at top right, a cross-section view of the box lid, showing a pressure plate occupying the lower two-thirds of the lid; at bottom right, a view from below of the same, looking up into the lid and showing an area removed from the pressure plate to avoid damaging the wax seal.

    Happy birthday, Hungerford Deed!

    • Date: July 28, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: Join us for a celebration of the Hungerford Deed on its 233rd birthday.

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  13. Collection Highlights: New Additions to the SIA Website

    • Date: April 16, 2019
    • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
    • Description: See new collection highlights posted to the Smithsonian Institution Archives website.

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  15. E. A. Goldman near Porto Bello, Panama, c. 1912, Seth Meek, photographer, Field Museum of Natural History Archives, neg. no. 38659.

    Connecting the Oceans: 100th Anniversary of the Panama Canal

    • Date: August 14, 2014
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: 100 years ago in August of 1914, the Panama Canal opened to commercial shipping. Smithsonian scientists knew the canal would create major environmental changes and have spent the last 100 years documenting them.

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  17. Stereoview showing a piece of mummy cartonnage (wrappings) painted with hieroglyphics, from Saqqara, Egypt, at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Summer 2018

    • Date: September 27, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: We highlight a few topics explored this summer 2018 by researchers at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  19. Records Shed Light on How Exhibitions Come to Life

    • Date: May 28, 2013
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Planning a museum or gallery exhibition takes a lot of work as seen through exhibition records that contain images, layouts, object labels, memos, and other important materials.

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  21. Blog Post

    The Near Faraway

    • Date: December 3, 2009
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  23. A 2002 press release about an exhibition at the National Museum at Natural History. It was written and saved as a Microsoft Word document.

    Word-processing files need love, too

    • Date: December 31, 2015
    • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
    • Description: Word-processing documents are important to preserve as well as other digital items.

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