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  1. Botanical illustration in color of a yellow and breen plant signed by Regina O. Hughes.

    Hot Topix in Archival Research, Winter 2020

    • Date: March 31, 2020
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: Vicarious research is one of the great joys of the reference desk at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. From our front-row (well, only-row) seat outside the reading room, we catch tantalizing glimpses of our patrons’ manifold research topics.The reference team fields around 6,000 queries per year. Ask us what people have been researching recently, and you’ll get into some

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  3. Ellen speaks to visitors on a tour of collections in the Natural History Museum Building. She is holder up documents from a folder.

    Wonderful Women Wednesday: Ellen Alers

    • Date: April 7, 2021
    • Creator: Tad Bennicoff
    • 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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  5. Neither There nor There, 2005, by Siebren Versteeg, computer program output to 2 LCD screens, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 07.35.

    Handling Digital Assets in Time-Based Media Art

    • Date: February 20, 2014
    • Description: Handling Digital Assets in Time-Based Media Art at the Smithsonian Institution

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    “Smithsonian Station”: The Metro Station that Almost Wasn’t

    • Date: July 5, 2016
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: A station for the Metro, Washington DC’s subway system, was eliminated from early plans but protest by the Smithsonian ensured it would be built.

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    What should “reality” look like?

    • Date: April 6, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="422" caption="Untitled, 2007, © 2007 Jos Stam"][/caption] In selecting participants for click! photography changes everything, one of the issues I wanted to explore was, “Just how photographic do the images of ‘reality’ need to be?” Many people assume that the quantity and level of detail captured in a photographic image—what some

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  11. Archives Technician Deborah Shapiro.

    Staff Matters: Meet Our New Additions

    • Date: February 28, 2017
    • Creator: Hillary Brady
    • Description: An introduction to our new Archives Technicians.

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    Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty

    • Date: June 16, 2010
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: Since The Bigger Picture began in early 2009, I’ve written a number of posts about what might be called camera traps, situations where cameras are installed to collect evidence of one kind of unusual or unwanted behavior or another. Red light cameras are a controversial example; across the country and on an almost daily basis, local municipalities and motorists argue about

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    Preserving “The World Is Yours”

    • Date: January 23, 2020
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Here is a look into how the mixed media project of preserving The World Is Yours got its start.

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    Stumped!

    • Date: October 12, 2010
    • Creator: Ellen Alers
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="219" caption="Unidentified Washington, DC Church, 1919, by Martin A. Gruber, Black-and-white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection, 1919-1924, RU007355."][/caption] Recently the Smithsonian Institution Archives posted some images from the Martin A. Gruber Photograph Collection,

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    Smithsonian American Art Museum

    • Date: April 14, 2011
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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    Alison Reppert Gerber

    • Date: November 18, 2015
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  23. View of Record Unit 7399 – Hahn William Capps Papers, 1939-1964, Box 1, Folder Miscellaneous Larval Notes, Sketches, etc. (Unpublished).

    Miscellaneous Adventures: Unpublished Larval Notes and Sketches

    • Date: September 1, 2015
    • Creator: Kira M. Sobers
    • Description: Our series Miscellaneous Adventures looks into unpublished larval notes and sketches.

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