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    Who do you trust?

    • Date: July 30, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_1641" align="alignnone" width="400" caption="why? dia doscientos catorce, by Flickr member, Andrea"][/caption] Last weekend, I was working, editing a short essay about the rise of “citizen journalism” by Fred Ritchin, author of the recently published After Photography, which we’ll be uploading soon on click! photography changes everything.

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    Scantastic: Scanning Archival Images to Make Them More Useful

    • Date: May 24, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Access the official records of the Smithsonian Institution and learn about its history, key events, people, and research.

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  5. The ceremonial key received by Secretary Skorton.

    Welcome Secretary Skorton!

    • Date: October 20, 2015
    • Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution welcomes it’s thirteenth Secretary, David J. Skorton with an installation ceremony.

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  7. SERC blog post as appears online, with embedded YouTube video on river

    Fashion in Place of Fish: A Glimpse into Web Preservation

    • Date: August 13, 2019
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: Why would a fashion video appear on an environmental blog? That’s the question I found myself asking while performing web quality assurance (aka web QA) on the blog for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has more to do with fish than it does with fashion. As an intern in the Digital Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, my work in

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  9. Attendees of the Field Notes Edit-a-Thon 2013, by Geraldshields11

    Field Notes Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon

    • Date: June 27, 2013
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: This is a summary of the Smithsonian Institution Archives' 3rd Wikipedia edit-a-thon on the scientific field books in the Archives’ collections

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    The Times They Are a-Changin' at The Bigger Picture

    • Date: November 2, 2021
    • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
    • Description: This period of extended telework has allowed The Bigger Picture team to slow down and strategize about the future of the blog. Read about a few of the changes coming your way.

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  13. Three staff members of the International Exchange Service are at work in the basement of the Smithsonian Institution Building. Note electric wiring is on the ceiling. Wrapped packages are piled on the tables in the center and along the wall. 

    The Smithsonian International Exchange Service in World War II

    • Date: July 16, 2020
    • Creator: Jessica Scott
    • Description: While responding to a digitization request, I uncovered the story of how the Smithsonian International Exchange Service (1849-1992) helped rebuild the library collections of Chinese cultural heritage institutions during the Second World War.

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    Aww: Cute Baby Animals and Other Field Book Surprises

    • Date: May 25, 2017
    • Creator: Mignonette (Mig) Dooley Johnson:
    • Description: Snapshots of cute baby animals, taken during the National Geographic Society-Smithsonian Institution Expedition to the Dutch East Indies in 1937.

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    Walking on Broken Glass

    • Date: July 22, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_7450" align="aligncenter" width="379" caption="A broken glass plate negative, Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives."][/caption] We are in the throes of summer here in Washington DC, and that means three things:  heat, more heat, and interns. Interns not only allow us to share expertise and experience with newcomers to the field, but also allow

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    Archives Reveal How Cities Change: Photos of DC from the Early 1900s

    • Date: August 25, 2010
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives recently digitized over 300 images of Washington, D.C. from the 1920s. Read more about the collection here, and check out the photographs, which are now available on Smithsonian Collections Search Center as well as on the Flickr Commons. Intern Amanda Kaufman writes about the collection, which she helped digitize this summer, below. How

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  21. Hold on Loosely

    • Date: May 28, 2019
    • Creator: Heidi Stover
    • Description: Whether we love to hate them, or hate to love them, paper clips are a huge part of working in archives. In an attempt to showcase this little contraption, we did a call out to the twitterverse for other archivists to share their collection of paper clips. Needless to say, it was not a disappointment. Now go forth archivists! And remember Clippy will always be there to

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  23. Gone in a Flash

    • Date: February 9, 2021
    • Description: The end of Adobe Flash Player support means challenges in preserving older websites and online games.

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