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    1. Washington Monument, c. 1920-1924, by Martin A. Gruber.

      Many Happy Returns to the Washington Monument!

      • Date: October 22, 2013
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Washington Monument marks its 125th anniversary on October 9, 2013.

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    3. Brown boxes taped closed. The boxes are stacked on top of each other and are full and appear damaged. Some boxes are leaning. Four white boxes stuffed with papers are under a stack of brown boxes.

      Link Love: 2/8/2019

      • Date: February 8, 2019
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    5. B&W photo of interior with fireplace, a portrait of a woman on an easel, and highly ornate wood furniture.

      Studios and Cottages of a D.C. Socialite

      • Date: December 5, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: On December 5, 1961, the Smithsonian announced the gift of the Barney House Studio. We have written previously about Alice Pike Barney (1857-1931); artist, actor, playwright, and Washington D.C. socialite at The Bigger Picture. Barney donated her artwork and her D.C. residence which became part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection. In 1999, however, the house

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      Science Sits for Art

      • Date: April 29, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="366" caption="Heads and Fragments of Heads of Humeri, from the Photographic Catalogue of the Surgical Section, 1865, by William Bell, Albumen print on paper mounted on paperboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase from the Charles Isaacs Collection made possible in part by the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen

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    9. Edwin Joseph Cohn (1892-1953).

      Science Service, Up Close: Elegant Transparency

      • Date: May 26, 2016
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: A slide show of photographs of laboratory interiors from the Science Service collection.

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    11. An older man sits at a booth as people wait in line. Banners are visible. They read: Why do research?; What is conservation?; Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute; and Frog Voices.

      Festival of American Folklife 1996: Working at the Smithsonian

      • Date: June 2, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: At the 1996 Festival of American Folklife, Smithsonian staff and volunteers conducted oral history interviews with colleagues about their memories of working for the Smithsonian. To celebrate the Smithsonian’s 175th anniversary, we’re sharing clips from three of those interviews.

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      Art and Photography at the Smithsonian

      • Date: February 4, 2010
      • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="349" caption="Washington, D.C. 1975, from the series Archaeological Series, 6 Inch Contour Gauge, 1975, by Kenneth Josephson, Gelatin silver print on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1983.63.828."][/caption] In 1981, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (at the time it was named

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    15. printed page with 12 pointed star color spectrum, as well as a bar of colors below.

      Link Love: 6/1/2018

      • Date: June 1, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A graphic designer's delight — a new exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt explores color perception. [via Smithsonian Libraries]33 museums from 7 countries, including our own Smithsonian Archives of American Art, have produced the largest collection of Frida Kahlo art and ephemera with Google Arts & Culture. [via Remezcla]A key figure in LGBQT activism who organized the first pride

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    17. Aerial view of the National Museum of the American Indian from September 21, 2004, by Carl C. Hansen, Accession 11-019 - Smithsonian Photographic Services Collection, Smithsonian Institution Archives, neg. no. 2004-53062.

      National Museum of the American Indian in Washington Marks 10th Anniversary

      • Date: September 18, 2014
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: NMAI opened 10 years ago with a large gathering of native peoples in Washington, D.C.

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    19. It its collection, the National Museum of American History has a fallout shelter

      Link Love: 5/18/2012

      • Date: May 18, 2012
      • Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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    21. Burning leaves, autumn dawn, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, photograph by Ansel Adams, 1943, Library of Congress.

      Link Love: 5/9/2012

      • Date: May 9, 2014
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.

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      Smithsonian Online Paved the Way for Today’s Online Offerings

      • Date: August 3, 2017
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: Smithsonian Online (SOL) was an online platform through AOL that included Smithsonian images, chats, message boards and other features during the 1990s.

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