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      What are You Watching?

      • Date: August 22, 2013
      • Description: How open source helps us save film and video recordings digitally . . . no matter how bizarre the subject matter.

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      Documenting a Life of One’s Own

      • Date: March 24, 2022
      • Description: Consider the courage it took for some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian to donate their personal papers to the Institution.

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    5. A woman sits at a desk near a typewriter and many stacks of papers.

      Science Service, Up Close: Science Reporters on the Hunt

      • Date: April 18, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Photographs from the Science Service collections preserve behind-the-scenes glimpses of the newsgathering process for science reporters.

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    7. Wild animals of Glacier National Park, 1918. Vernon and Florence Merriam Bailey. Courtesy of Biodiversity Heritage Library.

      Scientific Sweethearts: Research Couples in the Archives

      • Date: February 11, 2016
      • Creator: Hillary Brady
      • Description: A look at the life and work of husband and wife Smithsonian scientists researching in the field.

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    9. February 4, 1925 Letter Charles Doolittle Walcott to William Howard Taft, Record Unit 45 - Office of the Secretary, Records, 1890-1929, Smithsonian Institution Archive, neg. no. SIA2015-001132.

      Hoping it Will Help

      • Date: December 2, 2014
      • Creator: Tammy L. Peters
      • Description: How one dollar launched a fundraising campaign in 1925.

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    11. A man wearing a headphone-like device sits in a leather chair.

      The Scientific Portraits of Julian Papin Scott, Part 1 of 2: The Photographer Behind the Lens

      • Date: September 3, 2019
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: In a world drowning in images, where we swipe past photos of friends, relatives, and selves in mere seconds, a set of remarkable portraits taken in the 1910s and 1920s by Julian Papin Scott (1877-1961) deserve more considered attention. Sometimes, his subjects appear immersed in work, surrounded by microscopes, beakers, or stacks of books, as if unaware of the photographer.

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      An ‘Intern’duction to Storage of Oversized Archival Collections

      • Date: January 12, 2016
      • Description: I was recently given the opportunity to work as a Collections Care Intern at the Smithsonian Institution Archives for the months of November and December 2015, under the supervision and partnership of the Archives’ Collections Care Team. During my short time here, I worked on two parallel projects focused on surveying, preserving, and treating oversized archival collections:

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    15. Crimilda Pontes: The Original Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst

      • Date: March 24, 2020
      • Description: A celebration of the woman who originally designed the iconic Smithsonian sunburst.

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