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    For All the World to See

    • Date: February 10, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE.

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    Collecting Stories. Saving Treasures. Building a New Museum.

    • Date: February 16, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives will be celebrating African American History Month throughout February with a series of related posts on THE BIGGER PICTURE. When I interviewed Lonnie Bunch, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, as part of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative’s online project click! photography changes

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  5. Sen. John F. Kennedy campaigns with his wife in Boston, 1958, by Carl Mydans.

    The Good Wife

    • Date: September 28, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Smooth Operator

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

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    Rosa Parks' Archive and Some Controversies Around It...

    • Date: August 8, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    You're Going to Throw That Out? Now?

    • Date: May 9, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Institutions devise all sorts of procedures to determine what kinds of documents to collect, and how to save and archive them. The Smithsonian Institution Archives, for example, advises and works with various museums, research institutes, and offices across the Smithsonian, on an ongoing basis, to determine and manage what will get archived for posterity. But in some

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    Illegible, She Wrote

    • Date: May 16, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="A Penmanship sign was located in Boerum Hill and was painted in 1997. It was a faux billboard created by Jerry Johnson of Orange Outdoor Advertising, Photo by Bosc d'Anjou, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0 Generic."][/caption] A week or so ago, I was looking through documents scanned by the Smithsonian Institution

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    Location! Location! Location!

    • Date: July 6, 2011
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    To have and to hold (snap) . . .

    • Date: December 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="392" caption="Miss Gloria Smith (Wedding) Deluxe Wedding Album, June 24,1956, by Scurlock Studio (Washington, D.C.), Cellulose acetate photonegative, Scurlock Studio Records, ca. 1905-1994, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Call No. 0618.278269."][/caption] If events are heavily promoted as being once-in-a-lifetime

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  19. Looking for love

    • Date: February 14, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Across the Smithsonian, in hundreds of photographic collections, you’ll find images that document historic objects and events, species on land and under the oceans, cultural achievement, and data that streams in from outer space on a daily basis.

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    Lost and Found

    • Date: August 18, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7871" align="alignleft" width="187" caption="A rendering of the AT&T Building, now the SONY Building, in New York, recently purchased by the Victoria & Albert Museum from a newly discovered cache of material from the Philip Johnson’s architectural practice. Photo courtesy Capelin Communications.

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    Beating Hearts

    • Date: August 11, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Artists are often among the researchers who comb through archives in search of inspiration and content. A few years back in 2008, an encyclopedic exhibition, Archive Fever, presented at the International Center of Photography in New York, presented works by leading contemporary artists who have made active use of archival images, documents, and methodology to explore the ways

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