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    Link Love: 1/21/2011

    • Date: January 21, 2011
    • 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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  3. An interfiled audio record.

    What a Groovy Idea! A Pan-Institutional Survey of Audiovisual Collections

    • Date: April 21, 2016
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: In celebration of Preservation Week 2016, here’s a brief overview of surveys and their role in preservation, as well as a look into an audiovisual survey currently taking place right here at the Smithsonian.

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  5. Portrait of Theo van Gogh, 1887, by Vincent van Gogh.

    Link Love: 2/12/2016

    • Date: February 12, 2016
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: You can now download hi-res images of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings, sketches, and letters. [via Open Culture and Vincent Van Gogh Museum]Speaking of Van Gogh, the Art Institute of Chicago has recreated the bedroom in his famous painting and it is now for rent on Air BnB. [via Colossal]More enjoyable art browsing brought to you by technology! Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of

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    Couriers of the Flight

    • Date: October 22, 2009
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="400" caption="Photograph of airmail planes at Elko, Nevada, by unknown photographer, c. 1920, Smithsonian National Postal Museum."][/caption] Just last week, we uploaded some new photos of early US airmail from the National Postal Museum to the “People and the Post” set on the Flickr Commons. I was immediately drawn in by the portraits

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    Link Love: 6/18/2010

    • Date: June 18, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Arch Bridge, Keene NH, by Genuine Curteich, Chicago IL, Photographic postcard, Keene Public Library, Resource Identifier: hsykbrg008."][/caption] Wahoo! New folks on the Flickr Commons: The Reykjavik Museum of Photography and the Keene and Cheshire County (NH) Historical Photos. [via Effie Kapsalis, SIA] This year is the

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    Link Love: 8/27/2010

    • Date: August 27, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="167" caption="The Mona Lisa, between 1503 and 1505, by Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on poplar, The Louvre Museum."][/caption] Scientists have discovered the secret behind Mona Lisa’s beguiling smile by using x-ray technology [via More Intelligent Life]. And while we're at it, scientists use UV light to reveal how awesomely gaudy the colors of

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    Hot Topics in Archival Research, Winter 2018

    • Date: January 16, 2018
    • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_10581,size=200,left]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

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    The Archives Contributes to a new Website on the Burgess Shale

    • Date: December 8, 2011
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: The Smithsonian Institution Archives contributes images to a new website about the Burgess Shale, a paleontological site located in the Canadian Rocky Mountains, by Royal Ontario Museum and Parks Canada.

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  17. At the Archives Star Wars Is

    • Date: December 17, 2015
    • Creator: Mitch Toda
    • Description: In honor of Star Wars: The Force Awakens opening tomorrow, here are some Star Wars related things from the Archives Collections.

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    Link Love: 7/23/2010

    • Date: July 23, 2010
    • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
    • Description: Visitors: Share photos of your trip to the Smithsonian museums in this new Flickr set! Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes posts an interview with Secretary Clough that includes a mention of the Smithsonian Photography Initiative and Institution’s overall prioritization of digitizing and archiving photographs. Time sink! The BBC launched a World Music Archive this morning! There

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    See Here: 10/21/2010

    • Date: October 21, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="401" caption="National Air and Space Museum's Space Shuttle Enterprise flew into Washington Dulles International Airport on November 16 atop a modified Boeing 747 carrier Aircraft, Using cranes, the Enterprise was removed from the top of the 747 and lowered to the tarmac at Dulles on November 17, 1985, by Dale Hrabak, Black and white

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    See Here: 10/5/2010

    • Date: October 5, 2010
    • Creator: The Bigger Picture
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Waldo LaSalle Schmitt at the Cosmos Hotel, Punta Arenas, Chile, Schmitt, curator of Marine Invertebrates, United States National Museum, conducted extensive field work in South America, 1927, by Unidentified photographer, Black and white photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7231 Box 83 Folder

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