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  1. A fence built by an unknown insect to protect its nest of eggs, by Troy Alexander, Tambopata Research Center.

    Link Love: 9/6/2013

    • Date: September 6, 2013
    • 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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  3. Scanning technique demonstrated by Mattie Woodford, Powell Group film scanner, taken April 1961. National Archives Identifier 7665735.

    Link Love: 10/17/2014

    • Date: October 17, 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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  5. In four frames a woman is speaking to an audience that is not pictured. She is stranding behind a table. A mirror is above the table. On the table are bowls and utensils.

    Link Love: 3/1/2019

    • Date: March 1, 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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  7. Color photograph of volunteer Joan Gilder siting in a preservation lab.

    Volunteer Spotlight: Joan Gilder

    • Date: April 24, 2018
    • Creator: Alison Reppert Gerber
    • Description: Joan Gilder has been a volunteer with the Smithsonian Institution Archives' Preservation Team for two decades, and has worked to treat many of our collections in order to increase their lifespan and improve access. She has been an invaluable asset to the Archives since she first began, and we are thrilled to share a little more about her story.What did you do before you began

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  9. Winter’s arrival brings the annual increase of requests for photos by Wilson A.

    Hot Topics in Archives Research

    • Date: February 18, 2014
    • Creator: Mary Markey
    • Description: Quarterly post on research at the Smithsonian Institution Archives.

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  11. Blog Post

    What Does a Photograph Archivist Do?

    • Date: April 7, 2010
    • Creator: Marguerite Roby
    • Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Photo shoebox upset, by Stephen Cummings, Creative Commons: Attribution 2.0."][/caption] I recently took a position as photograph archivist at the Smithsonian Institution Archives and hope to be able to share through this blog some of the processes we are undertaking to make our photographic collections more useful and

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  13. A close-up view of a parchment sheet, covered closely with black ink writing. A passage is highlighted in yellow, “Estate at Studley and Calne and other Places in the County of Wilts[hire].”

    Tracing Inheritance in the Hungerford Deed

    • Date: September 24, 2020
    • Creator: William Bennett
    • Description: The Hungerford Deed split an inherited estate between two sisters—but what do we know about those properties? We’ve dug deep into one of them here.

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  15. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

    Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

    • Date: April 27, 2017
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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  17. Daily Report for the National Zoological Park, 1908, 16 May.

    International Travels of the Australian Canis Dingo: Part II

    • Date: June 15, 2017
    • Description: The cultural history of the Australian dingo and the species’ connection to the National Zoo.

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  19. Blog Post

    Beautiful Dreamers

    • Date: December 15, 2009
    • Creator: Marvin Heiferman
    • Description: [caption id="attachment_3320" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="The Haggard Family II, February 2005, courtesy of Sandy Puc’ and the Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep Foundation."][/caption] When we began work on click!, it seemed obvious that somehow, someway, we’d have to find someone to explore how photography impacts our encounters with death. Many writers about

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  21. The Smithsonian Goes Telephonic in 1878!

    • Date: June 28, 2018
    • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
    • Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9592,size=200,left]Did you know the Smithsonian was an early adopter of the telephone? In June of 1878, a system of electronic bells and telephones was installed throughout the Smithsonian Castle. The system connected several workrooms and offices to provide instant communications within the building. At that time, there were only 187 telephone lines

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  23. Physicist Maria Goeppert-Mayer walking in to the Nobel ceremony with King Gustaf Adolf 1963

    Re-Prized

    • Date: December 9, 2014
    • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
    • Description: Highlight the women scientists in the Archives collections who have broken boundaries to capture the elusive Noble Prize.

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